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.
Farmington is a town located in the northern part of Ontario County, New York, USA. The population was 10,585 at the 2000 census. Farmington is about twenty-five miles southeast of Rochester, NY. The town was named after Farmington, Connecticut.