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.
Lyman is a town along State Route 24 in Wayne County, Utah, United States. The population was 234 at the 2000 census. Lyman was originally know as East Loa. It became a distinct place from Loa in 1893.