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.
Kasigluk is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Bethel Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2000 census the population was 543. Kasigluk consists of two smaller villages, called Akiuk and Akula.