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.
Fishers is a hamlet in the northwest corner of the Town of Victor, Ontario County, New York, USA. It is a small suburb of Rochester, NY. Fishers is home to the second oldest railroad building in the United States. The community is south of the New York State Thruway.