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.
Mountain Home, Tennessee, zip code 37684, is a separate postal zone consisting of the grounds of the Mountain Home VA hospital and Mountain Home National Cemetery, which also includes classrooms and administrative buildings of the medical and pharmacy school of East Tennessee State University. It is entirely contained inside the city of Johnson City, Tennessee.