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.
Fiskeville is a small village in the south west corner of Cranston, Rhode Island, United States, and also reaching into the south east corner of the Town of Scituate, Rhode Island. Its Main Street forms the border between the two municipalities.