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.
Hewitt is a city in Todd County, Minnesota, United States, along the Wing River. The population was 267 at the 2000 census. It was named in honor of Henry Hewitt, one of the first settlers to the area