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.
Mayersville is a town in Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 795 at the 2000 census. Mayersville was after David Mayer, on whose plantation the town was built. It is the county seat of Issaquena County. One of its more famous inhabitants was Unita Blackwell, Mississippi's first black female mayor, who was elected in 1977. She became president of the U.S. National Conference of Black Mayors.