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.
Lizella is a small unincorporated community in Bibb County, Georgia, United States, about 11 miles southwest of Macon. It is part of the Macon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lizella is home to a single post office, several churches, a fire station, police station, shopping center, a private pool, a private baseball field, a closed elementary school (W.B. Redding Elementary School). U.S. Route 80 passes through Lizella.