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.
La Conner is a town in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population was 761 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. In April, it hosts the majority of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival events. The center of town—roughly bounded by 2nd, Morris and Commercial Sts. , and Swinomish Channel—is a historic district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.