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.
Sidman is an unincorporated community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its ZIP code is 15955 and it is one half of the St. Michael-Sidman, Pennsylvania census-designated place in Cambria County. The other half is St. Michael, Pennsylvania.