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.
Elsmore is a city situated in the southeastern part of Allen County, located in southeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The population was 73 at the 2000 census, and it was estimated to be 68 in the year 2006.