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.
Mitchell is a city in Lawrence County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,567 at the 2000 census. It is the birthplace of astronaut Gus Grissom, Purdue University Mechanical Engineering graduate, who flew on Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3, and who died in a launch pad fire at Kennedy Space Center in 1967.