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.
Quitaque (pronounced Kitty-quay) is a city in Briscoe County, Texas, United States. The population was 432 at the 2000 census. The Texas high school football and college coach Gene Mayfield was born in Quitaque in 1928.