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.
Roxboro (pronounced rocs-boro) is a city and the county seat of Person County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census the city of Roxboro has a population of 8,696.