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.
Woden is an unincorporated community in Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States. Although Woden is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 75978; the ZCTA for ZIP Code 75978 had a population of 137 at the 2000 census. Woden is home to a post office, a grocery store, a K-12 school, and both a Baptist and a Presbyterian church, as well as a volunteer fire department. The Woden Independent School District serves area students in Pre-K through 12th grade.