1. At the time the suit was filed, Kay Robinson and her two children, Sam and Eva, were hospitalized with severe burns:

Since Kay Robinson had been trapped in the burning car the longest, her burns were the most horrible of all. She had burns on forty-eight percent of her body thirty-five percent of which were third degree. Kay was in the intensive care unit for seventy-seven days and was hospitalized in Tulsa for another several months. She underwent thirty-four operations, all but two of which were under general anesthetic, for skin grafts and other reconstructive surgery. Most of her fingers were amputated, and she had severe scarring over the entire part of her body. Eva and Kay also suffered severe psychological trauma both from the ordeal and from their permanent disfigurement.

Adams, World-Wide Volkswagen v. Woodson—The Rest of the Story, 72 Neb. L. Rev. 1122, 1127 (1993).