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.
Mannsville is a village located in the Town of Ellisburg in Jefferson County, New York. The population was 400 at the 2000 census. The name is from Barzillian Mann, early developer. The Village of Mannsville is in the southeast part of the town and is south of Watertown.