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.
Bradgate is a town in Humboldt County, Iowa, United States. The population was 101 at the 2000 census. On May 21, 2004, the town was almost completely destroyed by a tornado. It is twinned with Newtown Linford near Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, England.