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.
Rivervale is an unincorporated community in Poinsett County, Arkansas, United States, approximately 5 miles north of Lepanto. It is home to Rivervale Grocery. It also has a restaurant and post office. The Rivervale Tunnel, an engineering project in which one river flows under another, is located near Rivervale.