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.
Bellerose is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 1,173 at the 2000 census. The Village of Bellerose is in the Town of Hempstead near the western county line.