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.
Grandin is a city in Cass and Traill counties in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The population was 181 at the 2000 census. It is now a bedroom community for the nearby Fargo-Moorhead area. Grandin was founded in 1881. Grandin was the birthplace of the abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still.