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.
Baudette is a city in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,104 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lake of the Woods County. The town of Baudette was largely destroyed by the Baudette Fire of 1910, but was quickly rebuilt.