FT Professional Glossary
Tort
Something wrong that somebody does to somebody else that is not criminal, but that can lead to action in a civil court
Example usage from an FT article:
The Supreme Court decision had left lawyers and companies trying to decide how to resolve so-called “mass torts”, where corporate product liability claims totalled in the thousands of victims and hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.
Excerpt from "Purdue and Sackler family agree to $7.4bn opioid settlement with US states"
