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.
Wayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,100 at the 2000 census. For geographic and demographic information on Cochituate, which is part of Wayland, please see the article Cochituate, Massachusetts.