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.
Sawyer is a city in Ward County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 377 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Minot Micropolitan Statistical Area. Sawyer was founded in 1898.