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.
Fort White is a town in Columbia County, Florida, United States named after a military fort built in the 1830s. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 531.