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.
Pekin is a city in Nelson County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 80 at the 2000 census. The first European settlers immigrated to the area in the mid 1800s and Pekin was founded in 1906.