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.
Burrton is a city in Harvey County, Kansas, United States. The population was 932 at the 2000 census. Burrton was the birthplace of Milburn Stone, who portrayed Dr. Galen Adams of Dodge City on the long-running CBS Western series Gunsmoke.