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.
Oreland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and Upper Dublin Township, Pennsylvania, just outside of the Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy areas of Philadelphia, with a ZIP code of 19075. The population was 5,509 at the 2000 census.