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.
Park Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States. Thousands of tourists come to Park Rapids every year to enjoy the area lakes and visit Itasca State Park. Itasca State Park, the source of the Mississippi River welcomes almost half a million visitors every year. The population of was 3,276 at the 2000 census.