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.
Rifton is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 501 at the 2000 census. Rifton is near the west town line of the Town of Esopus on Route 213.