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.
Kents Hill is an unincorporated village in the northwest corner of the town of Readfield, Maine, east of the town of Fayette, with which the village shares a zip code (04349). The village's name comes from the farmer who owned the land before Luther Sampson bought it to start Kents Hill School.