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.
Channahon is a village in Grundy and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was approximately 14,000 at the special 2007 census. Channahon is also the name of the township in which most of the village resides. The current village president is Joe Cook.