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.
Saybrook is a village in southeast McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 764 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bloomington–Normal Metropolitan Statistical Area. Known by locals as the "City of Shade and Water", its founders named it in honor of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.