The daughter of a woman who died in 2023 after she was trapped in a Sleep Number smart bed and died from injuries she sustained, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sleep Number and the bed's designer, Carthage-based Leggett & Platt, this week in St. Louis County Circuit Court.
According to the petition in the lawsuit filed by Angela Moan, her mother Rosalind Walker, 80, was in the bed March 1, 2023, when it lowered without warning, trapping her between the bed and the wall. She remained there for two days until she was freed by emergency responders.
Walker was treated, transferred to a rehabilitation center then returned home on hospice care where she died April 3, 2023.
From the petition:
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated breached the duty of reasonable care by:
a. Designing and selling a Sleep Number Bed that did not have adequate instructions or cautionary language in the instructions or on the bed, alerting Mrs. Walker not to go between the bed and the wall as she could be trapped;
b. Designing and selling a Sleep Number Bed that did not have an appropriate warning of any type alerting Mrs. Walker not to go between the bed and the wall as she could be trapped;
c. Designing and selling a Sleep Number Bed that did not have an adequate audible warning alerting Mrs. Walker it was declining;
d. Designing and selling a Sleep Number Bed that lowered with such force as to trap Mrs. Walker between the bed and the wall;
e. Designing and selling a Sleep Number Bed that had a timer which caused the bed to decline without any physical input or warning from Mrs. Walker thus trapping Mrs. Walker between the bed and the wall; and/or,
f. Designing and selling a Sleep Number Bed that did not have an appropriate release mechanism which would have allowed Mrs. Walker to free herself from her trapped position between the bed and the wall.
This negligence was the proximate cause of Mrs. Walker’s injuries, suffering, and she died.
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff seeks compensation from Leggett & Platt, Incorporated for Mrs. Walker’s predeath suffering and injuries, for the related medical bills and for the loss of her mother’s society.
Sleep Number Corporation owed Mrs. Walker a duty of reasonable care. The allegations against Sleep Number were nearly identical.
The five-count lawsuit alleges wrongful death, product liability and breach of warranty. Moan is represented by Ted N. Gianaris of Gianaris Trial Lawyers LLC.
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