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.
Duke is an unincorporated community in southern Phelps County, Missouri. It is located about thirteen miles northwest of Licking and eight miles east of Fort Leonard Wood in the Mark Twain National Forest.