A gas line fails behind a stove in a Bushwick walk-up and the kitchen erupts in a fireball. An arc flash rips through an electrical panel on a Sunset Park job site. A malfunctioning boiler sends scalding water through the pipes of a Brownsville apartment building while a toddler is in the bath. If you're researching burn injury verdicts in New York because one of these nightmares happened to you or someone you love, you've probably noticed the numbers vary wildly — from high

A fire breaks out two floors below your Bronx apartment at 3 a.m., and by the time you reach the stairwell, the hallway is already full of smoke and heat. Or a radiator without a cover scalds your toddler in a Washington Heights walk-up. Or a boiler explodes at a Suffolk County plant and you wake up days later in a burn unit. Behind each of these scenarios sits a category of cases that New York juries take extremely seriously. This post looks at recent burn injury verdicts in