E Co.sold five million toasters.The company never had a safety problem.One of its toasters,for no clear reason,electrocutes the son of the woman who bought the toaster.In her suit against E Corp.for the death of her son (a tort),the company is likely to be held:

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This scenario involves strict liability, which is a legal concept that holds manufacturers strictly liable for defects in their products that cause injury or harm to consumers. In this case, the company produced a toaster with a defect that caused injury, and thus they would be held liable for the harm caused. The fact that they had no prior safety problems and that the defect affected only one out of five million toasters is not relevant to the strict liability analysis.

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