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.
Holcomb is an unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States. Located eleven miles west of Grenada, the community was founded in 1901 on land that once was the home site of Choctaw Indian Chief Isaac Perry.