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.
Simmesport is a town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,239 at the 2000 census. Norma McCorvey, a.k. a, "Jane Roe", the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, was born in Simmesport in 1947.