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.
Upsala is a city in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 424 at the 2000 census. It was named after Uppsala, Sweden by Swedish settlers in the 19th century.