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.
Germantown is a city in Bracken and Mason Counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The population was 190 at the 2000 census. The Bracken County portion of Germantown is part of the Cincinnati–Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Mason County portion is part of the Maysville, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area.