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.
Lowell is a village in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the Muskingum River. The population was 628 at the 2000 census. Lowell is the third-oldest settlement in the Northwest Territory, after Marietta, Ohio and Belpre, Ohio.