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.
Forman is a city in Sargent County, North Dakota in the United States. It is the county seat of Sargent County. The population was 506 at the 2000 census. Forman was founded in 1883.