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.
Hopkinton is a city in Delaware County, Iowa, United States. The population was 681 at the 2000 census. The town is the former home of Lenox College, a small school that closed in 1944. The old campus is still maintained as a museum.