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.
Castleton is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located approximately midway between Washington and Culpeper. Lorin Maazel maintains a house in Castleton, and has made it the focus of the Castleton Festival every summer.