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.
Ramsey is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located twenty-six miles northwest of Midtown Manhattan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 14,351. Ramsey was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1908, from portions of Hohokus Township. Additional territory was annexed from Waldwick in 1921, and portions of the borough were ceded to Saddle River in 1925.