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.
Sardis is an unincorporated community in southeastern Lee Township, Monroe County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office with the ZIP code of 43946. It lies at the intersection of State Routes 7 and 255. An Ohio River town, it lies below Hannibal and above New Matamoras. Sardis shares a consolidated high school (River Pilots) with Antioch, Duffy, Fly, Hannibal, Laings, Powhatan Point, and Clarington.