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.
Raymond is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 9,674 at the 2000 census. Part of Pawtuckaway State Park is in the north. The central village in town, where over 29% of the population resides, is defined as the Raymond census-designated place (CDP), and is located along the Lamprey River near New Hampshire Route 27.