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.
Lafferty is an unincorporated community in northeastern Union Township, Belmont County, Ohio, United States, along Wheeling Creek. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43951. Lafferty has one church, had two railroad tracks and has a moose lodge, and it had a movie theater back in the 1930's. Lafferty is part of the Wheeling, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.