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.
Downers Grove is a village in Downers Grove and Lisle Townships, DuPage County, Illinois, located 19 miles (31 km) west of Chicago. The population was 48,724 at the 2000 United States Census. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population in 2008 to be 49,250.