Publication Date

Winter 2001

Journal

William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

Abstract

Over the past several decades and at a quickening pace, we have seen the rise of the mass tort phenomenon. The term mass tort refers to an allegation of injury by large numbers of persons due to a calamity or exposure to defectively produced foods, drugs, products implanted in the body, or improperly designed or constructed vehicles, other products, materials or structures, which is sought to be redressed by combining (aggregating) large numbers of claims sharing like issues of fact and law into a litigation against one or more defendants using such structural aggregative methods as class actions, consolidations, and other techniques.

Volume

26

Issue

2

First Page

243

Last Page

322

Publisher

William & Mary Law School

Keywords

Ethics, Torts, Fraud, Crimes Against Property, Legal Practice and Procedure

Disciplines

Law | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility | Torts

Comments

Symposium 2001: Toxic Torts: Issues of Mass Litigation, Case Management, and Ethics

Download

Share

COinS