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.
Magee is a city in Simpson County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,200 at the 2000 census and stood at 5,019 as of February 2007. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.