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.
Prudenville is an unincorporated community in Roscommon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a Census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes. The population of the CDP was 1,737 at the 2000 census.