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.
Dunlap, located on Illinois 91, is a small village in Peoria County Illinois, United States. Its population was 926 people as of the 2000 census. Dunlap is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area and growth in the city of Peoria is extending towards the village. There are only a handful of businesses in the village's sixteen blocks. Dunlap High School is on the southeast fringe of the village and serves many students from northern areas of Peoria.