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.
Romney is an unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County in the U.S. state of Indiana. Originally named Columbia, Romney received its present name from the community of Romney in West Virginia. It has a well known equestrian facility, Foxton Farm, that was once used for fox hunting, but now houses the Equestrian program at Purdue University and stables the polo ponies of the Purdue Polo Club. The community is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.