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.
Peckville is a village in Pennsylvania, a few miles north of Scranton. The governing borough of Peckville is Blakely. See also: Blakely, Pennsylvania