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.
Villas, better known as the Villas is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Lower Township, in Cape May County, New Jersey. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 9,064. Villas is the site of Blitz's Market, where one of the four winning Mega Millions lottery tickets was sold to a disabled veteran on August 31, 2007. In 2008, residents discovered that copper piping had been stolen from under several homes in the area. It was later found that much of the piping was corroding due to large amounts of water seeping through fissures in the disintegrating roads, that are finally under repair.