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.
Surrey is a city in Ward County, North Dakota in the United States. Surrey was founded on June 18, 1900, named after Surrey, England by railroad officials. In 1914, the Great Northern Railway made it the termination point of the cutoff line between the Minot and Fargo. The city was incorporated in 1951, with an original population of 150. It is a suburb of Minot and is part of the Minot Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 917 at the 2000 census.