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.
Keeseville is a village in both Clinton County, New York and in Essex County, New York in the United States. The population was 1,850 at the 2000 census. The village is named after the Keese family. The Village of Keeseville is in the Town of Au Sable (or Ausable), New York and the Town of Chesterfield. Keeseville is south of Plattsburgh. It is also inside the Adirondack Park.