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.
Spanish Fort is a suburb of Mobile, Alabama in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, located on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. The 2000 census lists the population of the city as 5,423. "Census 2000 Demographic Profile Highlights" (for Spanish Fort, AL), US Census Bureau, 2007, webpage: US-Census-SpanishFortAL. </ref> It is part of the Daphne–Fairhope–Foley Micropolitan Statistical Area.