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.
Zumbrota is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the North Fork of the Zumbro River. The population was 2,789 at the 2000 census. It promotes itself as "the only Zumbrota in the world. " Zumbrota is the home of the Zumbrota Covered Bridge, the last structure of its kind in the state of Minnesota.