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.
Blanchard is an unincorporated community in Blanchard Township, Traill County, North Dakota in the United States. Blanchard is near the North Dakota-Minnesota border, near the junction of North Dakota State Highway 18 and North Dakota State Highway 200. Near Blanchard stands the KVLY-TV mast, the second tallest man-made structure in the world. The KXJB-TV mast stands six miles from Blanchard, near Galesburg.