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.
Bear River City is a town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 750 at the 2000 census, an increase over the 1990 population of 700. Its population places it well below the minimum population for a city under Utah law. Bear River City was first settled by a group from Brigham City in 1866.