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.
Washingtonville is a village in Columbiana and Mahoning counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 789 at the 2000 census. Washingtonville is split between the East Liverpool–Salem Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Youngstown–Warren–Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.