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.
Arcola is an unincorporated town in Lake Township, Allen County, Indiana. Once a booming train station for farm products and a regional U.S. postal center in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the town in more recent years has become a bedroom community of Fort Wayne.