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.
Scott is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 7,870 at the 2000 census. Scott is a suburb of Lafayette and is part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.