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.
ʻEleʻele (literally, "black" or "black water" in Hawaiian) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States, with the zip-code of 96705. The population was 2,040 at the 2000 census.