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.
Lake Lure is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2008 the town population was 1,012. Lake Lure was incorporated in 1927, and acquired the lake after which it is named in 1965.