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.
Smithfield is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 7,261 at the 2000 census, and 9,535 as of the 2008 estimates.. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho (partial) Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the second largest city in the area after the principle city Logan, Utah.