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.
Quinlan is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,370 at the 2000 census. The city has a total area of 1.2;square miles (3.2 km²), all of it land. Quinlan is a well known town because of its surrounding cities (Greenville, Tawakoni, Terell, others.)