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Ikea, the Swedish furniture company, sells inexpensive, stylish, and sometimes hard-to-put-together furniture that is a home decorating go-to for budget-conscious Californians. The popularity of Ikea’s mass-produced furnishings, however, comes with a downside: the potential for widespread harm when the company manufactures and sells an unreasonably dangerous product.
Few people ever imagine that a piece of furniture could cause them harm. Unfortunately, it happens. Defective furniture and decorative items made by Ikea can cause serious, even fatal, injuries when they collapse, tip over, or otherwise fail to serve their intended purpose. If an incident involving an item made by Ikea has left you badly injured, you may have the right to receive substantial monetary damages. Contact the personal injury lawyers at Gomez Trial Attorneys today for a free case consultation.
Gomez Trial Attorneys is a Southern California personal injury law firm. We represent people who have suffered harm because of someone else’s unreasonably dangerous decisions or actions. One focus of our law practice involves holding manufacturers responsible to account for making and selling dangerous products that cause innocent consumers physical harm.
Over the years, our award-winning team has achieved multiple, multi-million-dollar results on behalf of clients injured by dangerous and defective products. Unlike many smaller personal injury law firms, we have the staffing, experience, and resources to take on even the largest corporate defendants and their defense attorneys in legal actions that compel them to compensate victims for the harm their products caused.
Ikea furniture and accessories have caused numerous injuries to unsuspecting consumers. In fact, Ikea’s website contains an extensive list of recalled items known to cause injury because of their design.
The dangers posed by products recently recalled by Ikea include:
We urge anyone reading this article to check Ikea’s recall list to find out if their home contains a recalled item. Also, always check the list before purchasing any used Ikea item.
In 2016, Ikea recalled its popular “MALM” line of chests and dressers, along with other models after the federal Consumer Products Safety Commission (CSPC) identified and reported a fourth child fatality related to those products. The CSPC deemed the three-drawer dresser unstable, particularly with its upper drawer pulled out. To meet the furniture industry’s safety standards, the MALM requires wall anchors to prevent it from tipping over.
A tipping dresser can crush a child, cause death by suffocation, or lead to serious injuries, including:
Ikea dressers and chests have injured dozens of children around the United States in recent years. The company has altered its recent dresser designs to protect children from tip-over risk. However, that does nothing to change the fact that Ikea furniture has already caused widespread injuries and fatalities to vulnerable children, nor does it eliminate the risk of still more dressers tipping-over and causing harm. People do not often think to check for recalls of their furniture. Many Ikea dressers subject to recall may still be out there posing a serious risk to the health and safety of children and other consumers.
If an incident involving any Ikea product injured you or your child, contact Gomez Trial Attorneys right away.
If you or your child suffered serious injuries because of a defective Ikea product, then contact Gomez Trial Attorneys as soon as possible. Manufacturers like Ikea have a strict legal obligation not to make or sell unreasonably dangerous products that could hurt someone when used for their intended purpose.
Those injured by a defective, unreasonably dangerous product, such as an Ikea MALM dresser that tips over too easily, generally have a legal right to seek compensation from the product’s manufacturer for their injuries and losses. To prove the manufacturer’s legal liability for damages, the injured person’s lawyer might not even need to have evidence that the manufacturer acted negligently (which is to say, that someone who worked for the manufacturer made a knowingly dangerous decision or took a careless action that led to someone else’s harm).
Instead, the lawyer can often prove a legal claim for damages against a manufacturer merely by demonstrating that the product was unreasonably dangerous because of a defect in how it was designed, in how it was built, or in its failure to include adequate instructions or warnings about its potential dangers when used as intended.
For example, a claim against Ikea might argue that its MALM dresser had a defective design that made it prone to tipping, or that Ikea failed to give necessary warnings to purchasers about the tipping danger and of the need to anchor the dresser to a wall. Likewise, a lawyer might prove a claim against Ikea if the company shipped a product that required assembly but had poorly-manufactured parts that did not fit together well enough to prevent the product from falling apart and hurting someone.
Furniture and other home furnishings should never pose a serious health and safety risk; not to children, and not to anyone else. If you, your child, or a loved one suffered an injury connected in any way to an Ikea product that did not function as expected, contact Gomez Trial Attorneys right away for a free consultation to learn about your rights to financial compensation.
Every potential legal claim against a manufacturer like Ikea has its own unique facts and circumstances that affect the potential outcome. No lawyer can ever guarantee that an injured client will recover maximum, or any, compensation for harm caused by a defective product.
However, as a general matter, people injured by defective products may have the right to recover damages as compensation for:
Most people who end up with a broken piece of furniture have one reaction: throw it out, particularly Ikea furniture, which is rarely worth the cost of fixing. However, if that Ikea product that fell apart also injured you, then throwing it out is the worst thing you could do if you want to protect your rights to compensation.
Follow these steps instead:
Ikea furniture can kill. That is not an exaggeration. However, you do not have to have suffered the ultimate tragedy to seek compensation for a defect in an Ikea product. No piece of furniture or home furnishing should ever pose a risk to its owner. If you, your child, or a loved one suffered any kind of injury because an Ikea product fell over, fell apart, or contained dangerous materials or pieces, then you have potentially substantial legal rights to significant financial compensation.
Gomez Trial Attorneys represents victims of defective products like you throughout California. Our firm has years of experience in holding giant manufacturers accountable for their shoddy products and the harm they cause. Unlike some smaller firms, we have the skills and resources to go nose-to-nose with the largest corporations and the most expensive defense attorneys to make sure our clients receive the compensation they deserve. Contact our Ikea injury liability team today at (619) 237-3490 for a free, confidential, no-obligation consultation about your legal rights.
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