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.
Watkins is an unincorporated community in southeastern Benton County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads south of the city of Vinton, the county seat of Benton County. Its elevation is 830 feet (253 m). Although Watkins is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 52354, which opened on 15 December 1873.