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.
Richville is a village in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 274 at the 2000 census. The name is from an early settler. The Village of Richville is in the southwest corner of the Town of De Kalb and is southwest of the Village of Canton.