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.
Austell is a city in Cobb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 5,359 at the 2000 census. Census Estimates for 2005 show a population of 6,566.