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.
Junction is a city in and the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,618 at the 2000 census. The late Governor Coke Stevenson, who served from 1941-1947, was from Junction. The marksman and western entertainer Joe Bowman died of a heart attack in a hotel in Junction in 2009.