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.
Austinville is an unincorporated community in southwestern Butler County, Iowa, United States. It lies along Iowa Highway 57 southwest of the city of Allison, the county seat of Butler County. Its elevation is 1,001 feet (305 m). Although Austinville is unincorporated, it has a post office with the ZIP code of 50608, which opened on 3 October 1892.