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.
Hecla is a city in Brown County, South Dakota, United States, located only a few miles south of the North Dakota border. The main road running through it is route 37. The population was 314 at the 2000 census.