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.
Union Bridge is a town in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The population was 989 at the 2000 census. Much of the town was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Union Bridge Historic District in 1994.