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.
Crooks is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States and is a suburb of Sioux Falls. The population was 859 at the 2000 census. Crooks was named New Hope until 1904.