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.
Cannelburg is a town in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States. The population was 140 at the 2000 census. The settlement was first known as Clark's Station, after an early settler, renamed in 1872 for the cannel coal mined in the area.