You have suffered an unjustified wrong, and after researching, you find: “I’m not the only one.” Immediately, the phrase “class action” comes to mind. However, that is not the only legal path to justice, and in some cases, a class action does not make sense; a mass tort does, instead. So what is a class action, and why do some cases get filed as class actions while others do not?

A class action is a type of lawsuit where one person or group of people (the class representative(s)) represent the rights of others (the class members) who were victims of a similar wrong and suffered ...