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.
Groton is a city in Brown County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,356 at the 2000 census, although the 2008 census estimates have the population at 1,408.