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.
Blythewood is a town in Fairfield and Richland counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 170 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.