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.
Wauseon is a city in and the county seat of Fulton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 7,091 at the 2000 census. It was named after Wauseon, a Potawatomi Native American who lived in the area before the founding of the state.