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.
Roans Prairie (or Roan's Prairie) is an unincorporated community in Grimes County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 56 in 2000.