The complex issues that exist with electronic discovery are not unique to just mass torts or class actions. They exist equally in single event or small cases. And in some respects, even more critical to understand and grasp where resources and budgets might be more limited.
In a single event case, it may be tempting to forgo demanding that an ESI protocol be negotiated and entered or accept a production consisting entirely of PDFs in the interest of getting documents produced quickly, but what are you really giving up?