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.
Elizabeth is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on the east bank of the Monongahela river, where PA Rte. 51 crosses, 15 miles upstream [south] of Pittsburgh and close to the county line. The population was 1,609 at the 2000 census. The borough of Elizabeth is entirely contained within the 15037 USPS ZIP code.