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.
Holts Summit is a village in Callaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,935 at the 2000 census. Holts Summit is located 7 miles northeast of Jefferson City, Missouri's state capital. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.