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.
Mansfield is a city in and the parish seat of De Soto Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,582 at the 2000 census. Mansfield is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area.