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.
Maximo is an unincorporated community in eastern Washington Township, Stark County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44650. The community is part of the Canton–Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Maximo's name is derived from the fact that it was a high point on the Pittsburgh-Fort Wayne rail line. Despite it's small size and distance from Alliance, Maximo has a general store ("Maximo Kountry Korner"), a landscaping company, two churches (St. Joseph's and Maximo Zion), and a cemetery adjacent to St. Joseph's church; in addition to the post office.