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.
Stringer is an unincorporated community in southwestern Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. It lies at the intersections of State Highways 15 and Mississippi State Highway 533, between Bay Springs and Laurel.