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.
Litchfield is a city in Montgomery County, Illinois, United States. The population was 6,815 at the 2000 census. It is located in southern Illinois, south of Springfield and on the northern edge of the Greater Saint Louis Metro-East area.