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.
Flaxton is a city in Burke County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 73 at the 2000 census. Flaxton was founded in 1900 and was named because the predominant crop in the area is flax.