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.
Great Bend is a hamlet in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 801 at the 2000 census. Great Bend is in the northern part of the Town of Champion. It is adjacent to the south part of the Fort Drum military reservation.