{"id":16346,"date":"2020-01-07T05:31:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=16346"},"modified":"2020-01-07T05:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:35:45","slug":"ikea-to-pay-family-46m-after-child-killed-by-falling-drawers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2020\/01\/07\/ikea-to-pay-family-46m-after-child-killed-by-falling-drawers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea to pay family $46m after child killed by falling drawers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swedish furniture giant Ikea has agreed to pay $46m (\u00a335m) to the parents of a child who was killed when a chest of drawers fell on him.<\/p>\n

Jozef Dudek, 2, suffocated in May 2017 when the company’s Malm drawers toppled over at the family’s California home.<\/p>\n

The item, which weighs 70lbs (32kg), had been recalled a year earlier over safety concerns after three other children were killed.<\/p>\n

It is the largest child wrongful death settlement in US history, lawyers say.<\/p>\n

“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,” a spokeswoman for Ikea said.<\/p>\n

“We remain committed to working… to address this very important home safety issue,” she added.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the child’s parents, Joleen and Craig Dudek, said they were “devastated” by the loss of their son.<\/p>\n

“We never thought that a two-year-old could cause a dresser just 30 inches (76cm) high to topple over and suffocate him,” they said. “It was only later that we learned that [it] was unstable by design.”<\/p>\n

“We are telling our story because we do not want this to happen to another family,” the couple added. They urged anyone who still has a recalled Ikea dresser to return it.<\/p>\n

The family also said they would donate $1m of the settlement to groups working to protect children from dangerous products.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Ikea recalled millions of Malm chests of drawers<\/a>\u00a0in North America over safety concerns. It was the largest recall in the company’s history.<\/p>\n

Initially, the company warned customers to use wall mounts with them but the death of a third child prompted the action.<\/p>\n

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Left to right: Camden Ellis, Curren Collas and Ted McGee were killed by falling Ikea dressers (Image: Feldman Shepherd)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Camden Ellis, 2, Curren Collas, 2, and 23-month-old Ted McGee were all crushed by the product.<\/p>\n

In December of that year, the company agreed to pay $50m (\u00a340m) in a combined settlement to the families of the three toddlers.<\/p>\n

Under that settlement, Ikea agreed to only sell chests in the US that meet or exceed the national voluntary safety standard for clothing storage units.<\/p>\n

The deaths prompted the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to launch an education campaign about the risk of falling chests of drawers.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the company re-launched the recall<\/a>\u00a0in the US and Canada. It said items in its Malm range and other chests and dressers pose a “serious tip-over and entrapment hazard” if not secured to a wall.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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