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.
Union Bridge is a town in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The population was 989 at the 2000 census. Much of the town was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Union Bridge Historic District in 1994.