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.
Rockville Centre is a village located in New York's Nassau County on Long Island in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 24,568. The Village of Rockville Centre is inside the southwest part of the Town of Hempstead.