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.
Red Bud is a city in Randolph County, Illinois. The population was 3,422 at the 2000 census. It is the home of the Red Bud campus of Southwestern Illinois College.