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.
Machesney Park is a village located in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. The population was 20,759 at the 2000 census. A special census conducted in 2006 showed the population had grown to 22,426. It is part of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.