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.
Burr Oak is a village in St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 797. The village is located within Burr Oak Township.