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.
Lunenburg is a town in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,328 at the 2000 census. The name stems from one of the titles of George 2nd of England, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg. Lunenburg contains the villages of West Lunenburg, South Lunenburg, Gilman, and Mill Village, and the town is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.