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.
Ceresco is a farming village in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 920 at the 2000 census. It is located near State Route 77, just north of Lincoln, just south of Wahoo, and a short distance southwest of Omaha.