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.
Guilderland is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. In the 2000 census, the town had a population of 32,688. The town's name means "Moneyland" in Dutch and is named for Gelderland, in the Netherlands. The town of Guilderland is on the central-northwest border of the county. It is west of Albany, the capital of New York.