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.
Ivanhoe is an unincorporated community in southern Wythe County, Virginia, United States, just north of the Carroll County border. New River Trail State Park runs through Ivanhoe. This town composed in a rural atmosphere in which many of its residents do not even own cell phones.