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.
Lindley is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 1,913 at the 2000 census. The name of the town was named after the early settler Eleazer Lindsley. The Town of Lindley is in the south part of the county, south of Corning.