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.
Conklin is a town in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 5,940 at the 2000 census. The Town of Conklin is on the south border of the county, southeast of Binghamton, New York.