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.
Roseboom is a town in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 684 at the 2000 census. The town name is that of an early landowners and settlers Abram and John Roseboom. The Town of Roseboom is at the eastern county line.