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.
Diamond is a city in Newton County, Missouri, United States near Joplin, Missouri. The population was 808 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Diamond is the birthplace of George Washington Carver.