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.
Steele is a city in Kidder County, North Dakota in the United States. It is the county seat of Kidder County. The population was 761 at the 2000 census. The city was founded in 1880 and became county seat in 1881. Although they bear the same name, the city of Steele is not in Steele County, North Dakota.