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.
Silver Springs is a village in Wyoming County, New York, United States. The population was 844 at the 2000 census. The Village of Silver Springs is within the Town of Gainesville. The village is on Route 19A.