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.
Stendal is an unincorporated community in southern Lockhart Township, Pike County, Indiana, United States. It lies along State Road 257 southeast of the city of Petersburg, the county seat of Pike County. Its elevation is 610 feet (186 m), and it is located at 38°16′0″N 87°8′40″W / 38.266667°N 87.14444°W / 38.266667; -87.14444 (38.2667177, -87.1444478). Although Stendal is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 47585. Stendal is the hometown of former U.S. Senator Vance Hartke who starred for the Stendal Aces basketball team in high school.