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.
Valley Springs is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 792 at the 2000 census. Valley Springs was founded on November 13, 1872 and incorporated on February 22, 1879.