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.
Loma Linda (Spanish for Beautiful Hill) is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States, incorporated in 1970. The population was 18,681 at the 2000 census. The city was originally known as Mound City.