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.
There are other places named Yarmouth. North Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,210 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford Metropolitan Statistical Area.