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.
Richview is a village in Washington County, Illinois, United States. The population was 308 at the 2000 census. Some areas around Richview were made available for homestead under the Homestead Act during the Civil War.