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.
Hanley Falls is a city in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 323 at the 2000 census. Hanley Falls has two grain elevators run by the local farmers co-op and is the site of an annual thresher show.