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.
Haslet is a city in Denton and Tarrant Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, settled between 1880 and 1883. The population was 1,134 at the 2000 census.