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.
Lexington is a town in and the county seat of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 9,793 at the 2000 census. A special 2005 census showed that the town had a population of 14,329, an increase of 46% since the 2000 census, making it the second-largest municipality in the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.