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.
Markle is a town in Huntington and Wells Counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 1,102 at the 2000 census. It lies along and Interstate 69, U.S. Route 224 and Indiana State Road 3 .