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.
Machias is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 2,482 at the 2000 census. The Town of Machias is an interior town in the northeast quadrant of the county. It is northeast of Salamanca.