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.
Milan is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,331 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city's name is pronounced differently from the English name for the Italian city of the same name: . Neighboring Berlin also shares a similarly distinct pronunciation from its European namesake.