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.
Naalehu (Naʻālehu means "the volcanic ashes" in Hawaiian) is a census-designated place in Hawaii County, Hawaii. The population was 919 at the 2000 census. It is the southernmost town in the United States.