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.
Rio Nido, California is a small, unincorporated resort community on the Russian River, 1.3 mi (2.1 km) east of Guerneville, in Sonoma County. The town's name means "river nest" in Spanish.