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.
Denmark is an unincorporated community in northeastern Lee County, Iowa, United States. It lies along Iowa Highway 16 north of the city of Fort Madison, the county seat of Lee County. Its elevation is 722 feet (220 m), and it is located at 40°44′30″N 91°20′15″W / 40.74167°N 91.3375°W / 40.74167; -91.3375 (40.7417052, -91.3373735). Although Denmark is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 52624, which opened on 1846-04-07. The community is part of the Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.