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.
Ahwahnee is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. It is located 5.25 miles (8.4 km) west of Yosemite Forks, at an elevation of 2326 feet (709 m). Ahwahnee is hilly and located in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The ZIP Code is 93601. The community is inside area code 559. It is part of the Madera–Chowchilla Metropolitan Statistical Area.