A mass tort is a civil action involving numerous plaintiffs against one or a few corporate defendants. The tort may involve, for example, personal injuries suffered by numerous plaintiffs as a result of a defective product, or a mass disaster in which there were many injured persons, such as an airplane crash, or exposure of a large group of people to toxic chemicals or pharmaceuticals.
Beatrice (with the stress on the a) is a town in Monroe County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 412. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the town had a population of 403.