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.
Rockport is a city in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 337 at the 2000 census. The city is descriptively named for the large rocks on a nearby river bank.