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.
Elsie is a village in Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,055 at the 2000 census. The village consists of two noncontiguous portions within Duplain Township in the northeast portion of Clinton County.