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.
Jefferson is a town in Schoharie County, New York, USA. The population was 1,285 at the 2000 census. The Town of Jefferson is on the southwestern border of the county and is east of the City of Oneonta.