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.
Pep is a small unincorporated community in southern Roosevelt County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The community is composed almost entirely of farms and cattle ranches and is located about 7 miles south of Dora on New Mexico State Route 206.