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.
Leitchfield is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 6,139 at the 2000 census. The city is named for Major David Leitch, who owned the land on which the city was settled.