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.
Lanark is a city in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,584 at the 2000 census. As of 2005 census estimate, the population decreased to 1,483. Early in the Twentieth Century, it was home to the Cotta steam car company.