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.
Rushford is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The population was 1,259 at the 2000 census. The Town of Rushford is in the northwest part of Allegany County and is northeast of Olean, New York. The film Ghost Lake was filmed in Rushford in 2004.