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.
Wye Mills is an unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland, United States, located at an altitude of 13 feet (4 m). It is the home of the Wye Grist Mill which has been in nearly continuous operation since 1682, and Wye Oak (Maryland's honorary state tree, which was destroyed in a June 6, 2002, severe thunderstorm) and of Chesapeake College.