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.
Heaters is a small unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Heaters is situated about three miles north of Flatwoods on U.S. Route 19, which is a paved two-lane road. Access to I-79 is at Flatwoods. Heater's United States Postal Service ZIP Code is 26627. Heaters has no stoplight, no gas station, nor a general store, although it does have a post office. It used to have two bars, "The Boardwalk" and "Nancy's. " Both are now closed. The Boardwalk has become a restaurant, and Nancy's closed outright. Its most significant business is a Weyerhaeuser plant that manufactures oriented strand board building material.