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.
For other places with the same name, see Ludlow (disambiguation). Ludlow is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 324 at the 2000 census. The town of Ludlow features as the first victim of in the 1957 creature feature Beginning of the End.