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.
Davis is a town in Tucker County, West Virginia, along the Blackwater River. The population was 624 at the 2000 census. Davis was named either for Henry Gassaway Davis, or for his family generally.