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.
Alpaugh is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 761 at the 2000 census. It is named for John Alpaugh, one of the officers of the Home Extension Colony which reclaimed the land the town is built on.