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