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.
Argyle is an unincorporated community in southwestern Lee County, Iowa, United States. It lies along the concurrent Iowa Highways 27 and 394 southwest of the city of Fort Madison, the county seat of Lee County. Its elevation is 679 feet (207 m), and it is located at 40°31′53″N 91°33′59″W / 40.53139°N 91.56639°W / 40.53139; -91.56639 (40.5317073, -91.5662701). Although Argyle is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 52619, which opened on 1888-03-15. The community is part of the Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.