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.
Searchlight is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 576 at the 2000 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 13.1 square miles (34 km), all of it land.