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.
Brownsville is a city in and the county seat of Edmonson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 921 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Bowling Green, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is just outside Mammoth Cave National Park.