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.
Milford is a village in Milford Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,369 at the 2000 census. The origin of the village's name comes from its location where the Old Hubbard Trail forded the Sugar Creek and where a grist mill stood at the forde in 1836.