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.
Fort Calhoun is a city in Washington County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 856 at the 2000 census. Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is built on 660 acres (2.7 km²). This historic town includes Fort Atkinson, the first fort built west of the Missouri river.