A tort is an injury to a person's bodily integrity, financial situation, or other interest caused by another person's negligence or carelessness. A person who has been injured is entitled to be put into the position he or she was in before the tort, whether through economic compensation, medical care, or other means. This is the fundamental principle of American tort law.

A toxic tort is a tort caused by contact with a toxic substance. Because of the "advances" of corporate industry in our nation over the past fifty years, the number of dangerous, toxic substances in our environment has grown immeasurably. Some of the toxic substances that have been shown to cause significant injury to people are lead-based paint (brain damage, especially in children) asbestos (lung cancer, restrictive lung disease) dry cleaning and other solvents (brain damage, major organ damage) pesticides such as dioxin and DDT (birth injuries) electro-magnetic fields from utility wires or major appliances (suspected cancer) toxic landfill waste (leukemia, other syndromes) various drugs and pharmaceuticals such as DES and tainted L-tryptophan common industrial chemicals such as benzene and PCBs heavy metals and other chemicals such as mercury and arsenic.

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