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.
Pickstown is a town in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States. It was named after Lewis A. Pick, director of the Missouri River office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The population was 168 at the 2000 census.