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.
Covington is an unincorporated community in Covington Township of Baraga County in the U.S. state of Michigan, with coordinates of 46°32′29″N 88°32′13″W / 46.54139°N 88.53694°W / 46.54139; -88.53694 on US 141 near the junction with M-28, which is a few miles west of US 41.