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.
Turtle Lake is a village in Barron and Polk counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,065 at the 2000 census. The village is split between the towns of Almena (Barron County) and Beaver (Polk County).