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.
Ivanhoe is an unincorporated community in southern Wythe County, Virginia, United States, just north of the Carroll County border. New River Trail State Park runs through Ivanhoe. This town composed in a rural atmosphere in which many of its residents do not even own cell phones.