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.
Chadwick is a village in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 505 at the 2000 census, and only 475 as of the 2009 census. Chadwick has no stores, no gas station, and a single police officer.