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.
Alexander is a city in McKenzie County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 217 at the 2000 census. Alexander was founded in 1905 and is named after early North Dakota politician Alexander McKenzie.