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.
Grantham is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,167 at the 2000 census, an increase of 920 from the 1990 census. This made Grantham the fastest growing town in Sullivan County between the 1990 and 2000 censuses.