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.
Schleswig is a city in Crawford County, Iowa, United States. The population was 833 at the 2000 census. Schleswig is named after the region of the same name in Germany and Denmark, from which the original settlers came.