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 Valley is a city in and the county seat of Peach County, Georgia, United States. The population was 8,005 at the 2000 census. Fort Valley is the corporate headquarters of the Blue Bird Corporation, a large manufacturer of buses. The city is home to Fort Valley State University, a Historically Black College and University. The city is in the Macon metropolitan area.