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.
Farmington is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 12,365 at the 2000 census and 17,740 on July 1, 2008. It is a part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.