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.
Summitville is a hamlet in the town of Mamakating, New York in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The postal ZIP code is 12781; the telephone exchange is predominantly 888 and overlayed 647 in Area code 845. The hamlet is located along U.S. Route 209.