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.
Loraine is a town in Mitchell County, Texas, United States. The population was 656 at the 2000 census. George H. Mahon (1900–1985), a former county attorney, district attorney, and U.S. Representative from the Lubbock-based congressional district is interred at Loraine City Cemetery.