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.
Basile is a town in Acadia and Evangeline parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 1,660 at the 2000 census. The Acadia Parish portion of Basile is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.