Ikea to make largest settlement in US history

Ikea is set to pay $46 million to a family whose son was …

Ikea to pay $46 million

settlement after dresser kills 2-
year-old
SAMARA LYNN
● January 7, 2020, 2:14 AM GMT+2

Ikea to pay $46 million settlement after dresser kills 2-

year-old originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

In what lawyers believe to be the largest child

wrongful death settlement in American history, Ikea is
set to pay $46 million to a California family whose son
was killed after a dresser tipped over and fell on him.

Two-year-old Jozef Dudek was killed in 2017 when a

three-drawer Ikea dresser fell, crushing the child after
he was put down for a nap by his father.

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"Our clients were extremely safety-conscious. They

baby-proofed their home, and they had even secured
other furniture in their home to the wall if they thought
it presented any risk of tipping over," Alan Feldman,
one of the family’s attorneys, said at a press
conference.

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"However, when they purchased the three-drawer

MALM dresser from Ikea in 2008, they never
suspected that this small, short dresser could be an
instrument of death," Feldman continued.

The dresser weighs 70 pounds, according to court

documents. Lawyers claimed that Ikea knew that
MALM dressers "lacked counterbalancing weight on
the back and bottom of the dresser, causing the
dresser to be top-heavy and front-heavy, so as to
render it unstable," according to the complaint.

Ikea only recalled the dresser after lawyers from the

Feldman Shepard law firm filed lawsuits on behalf of
two other families whose children were also killed by
the same type of dresser.

PHOTO: IKEA store in Philadelphia, Jan. 6, 2020. (Matt

Rourke/AP)

Eight children are known to have died when Ikea

furniture tipped over. The discount furniture chain
recalled a total of 29 million chests and dressers,
including 8 million MALM dressers, in 2016.

"We would hope that this settlement raises awareness

of this significant public health and safety issue. Tens
of thousands of injuries occur each year; this number
must be reduced," another attorney representing the
families, Daniel J. Mann, told ABC News in an emailed
statement.

Even though consumers must assemble furniture

themselves, they should not be responsible for making
that furniture safe, said Mann.

"Product liability laws require consumer products to

be safe at the time of sale; it should not be up to
consumers to make a product safe. Children should
be safe in their bedrooms, and furniture must be
designed to be stable and tip resistant," he added.

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"While no settlement can alter the tragic events that

brought us here, for the sake of the family and all
involved, we're grateful that this litigation has reached
a resolution. We remain committed to working
proactively and collaboratively to address this very
important home safety issue. Again, we offer our
deepest condolences," Ikea said in a statement.

In June 2019, Ikea released a line of tip-over resistant

furniture aimed at preventing child deaths and injuries.

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