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.
Cicero is a town in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana, United States, north of Indianapolis. The population was 4,414 at the 2006 census. Cicero is best known as being a lakeside community with most of its population living on or very near the north end of Morse Reservoir and also known as being the burial place of Ryan White, who had spent his last few years there after moving from Kokomo, Indiana. Cicero is served by Hamilton Heights School Corporation, Indiana Academy and Cicero Seventh-day Adventist Elementary School.