The plaintiff, a single, forty-year-old health care consultant, was a backseat passenger in an automobile involved in head-on collision. She sustained a C-2 through C-4 neck fractures requiring several spinal fusions and a mild closed head injury. The plaintiff claimed that the head injury caused her to be unable to perform complex tasks in the management of her health care staff.  The Plaintiff claimed that the neck fracture would require several future spine surgeries.