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.
Hettinger is a city in Adams County, North Dakota in the United States. It is the county seat of Adams County. The population was 1,307 at the 2000 census. Hettinger was founded in 1907. The city and its surrounding township, were named in recognition of Hettinger County, from which Adams County was created in 1907.