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.
Brookfield (formerly Grossdale) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, 13 miles (21 km) west of Chicago. The population was 19,085 at the 2000 census. It is home to the world-famous Brookfield Zoo.