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.
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2008 was 38,077. It is also one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.