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.
Boggstown is an unincorporated town in Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County, Indiana. The population has varied between 350 and 500 persons in recent years. During the American Civil War, the town and the surrounding township seceded from the Union. Actress Marjorie Main best known as Ma Kettle spent her teenage years here growing up on the first road north of town (300 North)