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.
Walford is a city in Benton and Linn counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,224 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.