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.
Austin is a city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 605 at the 2000 census and all are related. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.