Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has agreed to pay $46 million to settle claims stemming from a fatal dresser tip-over incident involving a toddler.

Attorneys from Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig who represented the family of the 2-year-old killed in the incident announced Monday that they had secured the multimillion-dollar settlement in the case, Dudek v. Ikea. The lawsuit had been filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in 2017, and the parties agreed to the accord during mediation before Florida-based mediator Rodney Max of Upchurch Watson White & Max.

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