Products liability doctrine holds a manufacturer, or other party involved in selling a product, strictly liable when an article, placed into the market with knowledge that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes a personal injury. Consumers who are injured because of a fault with a product that the consumers had no ability to protect themselves against may recover against the manufacturer under a theory of products liability.
Helm is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. It is located 13 miles (21 km) south of Kerman, at an elevation of 187 feet (57 m). The first post office opened in Helm in 1913. The name is from William Helm, sheep rancher who arrived in 1859.