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.
Bethlehem is a town in Barrow County, Georgia, United States. The population was 716 at the 2000 census. The Price Family from the novel, The Poisonwood Bible, were residents of Bethlehem and there are many references to the town in the book.