You fell on a broken staircase in your Morris Heights apartment building and shattered your ankle. The surgery went fine, the hardware healed, and your Bronx orthopedist says the X-rays look perfect. But six months later your foot burns like it's pressed against a radiator, the skin has turned shiny and purple, and you can't stand the weight of a bedsheet touching it. Your doctor finally says the words: complex regional pain syndrome. So what is a CRPS case worth in New York

Your husband was crossing East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx when a driver ran the light. Now he lies in a neuro-ICU bed, eyes sometimes open, sometimes tracking your face, sometimes not. The doctors use words like "minimally conscious" and "disorders of consciousness," and you're left wondering what his life is worth in the eyes of the law. In New York, one of the largest components of a catastrophic injury case is called loss of enjoyment of life — compensation for everything