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.
Lowell is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 5,013. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lowell is the headquarters location of the nation's largest publicly owned trucking company, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Lowell has the sixth highest median household income in Arkansas, after Maumelle, White Hall, Cabot, Bryant, and Bethel Heights.