Joleen and Craig Dudek (top right) comforting each other as they join a news conference in Philadelphia via video after IKEA has agreed to pay US$46mil to the parents of the two-year-old boy who died of injuries suffered when a 70-pound recalled dresser tipped over onto him, the family’s lawyers said. - AP
SINGAPORE: Ikea, one of the biggest establishment that sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services in South-East Asia and the world, will pay US$46mil to the parents of the two-year-old boy who was crushed beneath a recalled dresser, according to the family's lawyers in Philadelphia.
The settlement comes more than two years following the death of Jozef Dudek, who was crushed under a Malm dresser, after his father put him down for a nap in their home in.
Jozef was the eighth child known to have died by an unsecured dresser toppling forward, and the first death confirmed after the furniture giant's historic recall of 29 million of the company's bureaus in 2016.
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