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.
San Marino is a small, affluent city in Los Angeles County, California. In 2009, Forbes ranked the city's ZIP of 91108 as the 79th most expensive area to live in the United States. The city was named after the Republic of San Marino, which is also present in the city's seal, with the Three Towers of San Marino.