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.
Iredell is a city in Bosque County in Northern Central Texas. The population was 360 at the 2000 census. The name of this city is sometimes mispronounced /ˈaɪrədɛl/ by non-locals.