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.
Pittsfield is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 3,931 at the 2000 census. The central village in town, where over 42% of the population resides, is defined as the Pittsfield census-designated place (CDP), and is located on the Suncook River near the junction of New Hampshire Routes 28 and 107.