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.
Iroquois is a village in Concord Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States, along the Iroquois River. In the 2000 census, the village had a population of 207.