IKEA is set to pay $46 million (£35 million) to the parents of a two-year-old, who died after one of the furniture brand's freestanding Malm dressers toppled onto him.
A lawsuit, brought by the Dudek family after their son's death in May 2017, alleged that IKEA had not taken adequate measures to alert customers about a product they knew to pose potential safety risks.
The company recalled 8 million Malm units in June 2016, alongside a number of other freestanding storage-solutions.
At the time of recall, the company acknowledged that the Malm units were unstable if not properly anchored to the wall, and encouraged customers to return their product in exchange for a refund.

The recall came after three other toddlers were killed by falling Malm dressers in the US, two in 2014 and one in 2016, prompting IKEA to issue free wall-anchoring kits for the product. A lawsuit brought jointly by the three affected families resulted in a pay-out of $50 million (£38 million) in late 2016 that was divided equally between them.
In this latest lawsuit, the Dudek family asserted that they were not notified that the product had been recalled.
In a statement they explained that prior to the incident they were unaware that the dresser, which they had originally purchased in 2008, was "unstable by design".

The $46 million settlement that was agreed last week has been described by the family's lawyers as the largest wrongful death settlement in US history that was tied to a single ...