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.
Beach is a city in and the county seat of Golden Valley County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The population was 1,116 at the 2000 census. Beach was incorporated in 1909. The mayor of Beach is Walter Losinski.