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.
Grant is a town in Marshall County, in the northeast of Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of Grant is 665; it is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.