IKEA, the Swedish home furnishings giant with its U.S. headquarters in Conshohocken, will have to pay $46 million to the family of a boy who was killed when a recalled dresser fell on him, writes Ellie Rushing for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Two-year-old Jozef Dudek died in May 2017, when the Malm dresser fell on him after his father put him down for a nap at their home in California.
He was the eighth child to die as a result of an unsecured IKEA dresser’s toppling forward. He was also the first confirmed death after IKEA recalled over 17 million bureaus four years ago.
According to the lawyers for the family, this represents the largest settlement for the wrongful death of a child ever made.
The boy’s parents, Joleen and Craig, bought the popular dresser in 2008 but did not hear about the 2016 recall.
One of the factors in them receiving such a large settlement was the fact that the pair were not notified of the recall by an email from IKEA, despite being members of its family rewards program.
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