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.
Stonefort is a village in Saline and Williamson counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 292 at the 2000 census. Stonefort school system merged with Carrier Mills, and is platted on the face of a bluff or Stonefort Bluff.