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.
Bryant is an unincorporated community in northeastern Clinton County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads northwest of the city of Clinton, the county seat of Clinton County. Its elevation is 804 feet (245 m). Although Bryant is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 52727, which opened as Ten Mile House on 25 August 1870 and changed its name to Bryant on 15 March 1871.