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.
Fairwater is a village in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 350 at the 2000 census. The community was founded around the water power of the Grand River in 1848 and was incorporated in 1921.