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.
Rumford is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 6,474 at the 2000 census. Rumford is home to both an important paper industry and the Black Mountain of Maine ski resort.