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.
Withee is a village in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 508. There is also the Town of Withee, which is also in Clark County several miles west of the village. The village is located mostly within the Town of Hixon, while a small portion extends south into the Town of Longwood.