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.
East Springfield is an unincorporated community in northwestern Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43925. It lies along State Route 43 northwest of the county seat of Steubenville. The community is part of the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.