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.
Matthews is a town located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and a suburb of the city of Charlotte. The population was 26,901 according to the 2006-2008 American Community Survey.