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.
Cataldo is an unincorporated community in Kootenai and Shoshone counties in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is located at 47°32′56″N 116°19′47″W / 47.54889°N 116.32972°W / 47.54889; -116.32972 (47.5488066, -116.3296149), at an altitude of 2,139 feet (652 m). Its Shoshone County portion is the site of the Cataldo Mission, the first mission in the Northwest, which is a National Historic Landmark.