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.
Meridian is a village in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The population was 350 at the 2000 census. The Village of Meridian is near the north town line of the Town of Cato and is west of Syracuse, New York.