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.
Kinards (also Kinard) is an unincorporated community in Laurens and Newberry counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP Code of 29355. The population of the ZCTA for ZIP Code 29355 was 801 at the 2000 census.