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.
Sprague is a city in Lincoln County, Washington, United States. The population was 490 at the 2000 census. The town was plotted in 1880 and named for former American Civil War Union general John Wilson Sprague. Eugene E. Lindsey, World War II naval hero, was born in Sprague.