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.
Worthington is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 170 at the 2000 census. Worthington was incorporated in 1893 and named for Colonel George Worthington, an early settler.