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.
Madison is a city in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,768 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lac qui Parle County. It proclaims itself to be the "lutefisk capital of the world."