Lawyers: IKEA to pay $46M in boy's dresser tipover death

IKEA has agreed to pay $46 million to the parents of a 2-year-old Buena Park, California boy who died of injuries suffered when a 70-pound recalled dresser tipped over onto him. That's according to the family's lawyers.

Jozef Dudek died in 2017 of his injuries, and his parents sued the Swedish home furnishings company in a Philadelphia court in 2018.

In the lawsuit, the Dudeks accused IKEA of knowing that its Malm dressers posed a tip-over hazard and that they had injured or killed a number of children, but that the company had failed to warn consumers that the dressers shouldn't be used without being anchored to a wall. The suit says the dresser was recalled in 2016.

The lawyers also say the settlement requires IKEA to meet with the advocacy organization, Parents Against Tip-overs, and broaden its outreach to consumers about the recall of IKEA dressers.