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.
Williams is a city in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 210 at the 2000 census. Williams was burned in the Baudette Fire of 1910.