When Insurers Try To Rewrite the Rules, Injured New Yorkers Pay the Price

Personal injury lawyer Billy Cooper analyzes proposed Albany budget changes that would cap non-economic damages and roll back joint and several liability, explaining how these reforms function in practice, why they matter in catastrophic injury cases, and how cost-shifting ultimately impacts injured New Yorkers and public systems.

New Yorkers live with risk. We cross packed intersections. Hop into Ubers and Lyfts. Dodge delivery bikes that seem to multiply every month.

What we do not sign up for is a legal system that quietly shifts the cost of catastrophic injuries away from corporations and onto families.