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.
Niles is a village in Maine and Niles Townships, Cook County, Illinois, United States. The 2008 population estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau is 28,666. The current mayor of Niles is Robert M. Callero.