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.
Quitman is a city in Cleburne and Faulkner counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its population was 714 at the 2000 census. Due to its partial location in Faulkner County, it is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.