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.
Romulus is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 22,979 at the 2000 census. Romulus is home to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and a General Motors plant which opened in 1976. The city is the most western community in the Downriver area in Wayne County.