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.
Loysburg, Pennsylvania is a small town in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States in part of South Woodbury Township. It lies in Morrison Cove along Pennsylvania Route 36 and the Yellow Creek near the Loysburg Gap in Tussey Mountain. Once name "Pattonville" in 1844 but was renamed back to Loyburg in 1864.