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.
Pearson is an unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States located within the town of Ainsworth. The closest incorporated town to Pearson is Summit; however, Pickerel, an unincorporated community within the town of Langlade, is closer. No major highways serve Pearson; the closest state highway is Wisconsin State Highway 55 in Pickerel. The Northeast Illinois Council of the Boy Scouts of America runs a summer camp, Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan Scout Reservation, in Pearson.