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.
Parshall is a city lying within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. It is located "on" the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Mountrail County, North Dakota, in the United States. Its population was 981 at the 2000 census. Parshall was founded in 1914, and is the home of the Paul Broste Rock Museum. On February 15, 1936, Parshall hit a temperature of -60°F (-51°C), setting a state record which still stands today. Randy Hedberg, a former NFL quarterback, was born and raised in Parshall.