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.
Port Ewen is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 3,650 at the 2000 census. Port Ewen is in the Town of Esopus, south of Kingston, New York, along U.S. Route 9W.