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.
Rombauer is an unincorporated community in eastern Butler County, Missouri. It is located about seven miles northeast of Poplar Bluff on the edge of the Mark Twain National Forest.