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.
Reddell is an unincorporated community in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located approximately two miles north of Mamou along Louisiana Highway 13. Reddell has a post office, grocery store, and one of the largest rice drier elevators in the state.