The family of a weeks-old infant who asphyxiated in an allegedly faulty infant carrier was paid a $7.25 million settlement Dec. 1 in Estate of Bethea v. Infantino LLC.
In September 2010, Christina Bethea attended a family outing in Brooklyn, New York, carrying her 25-day-old infant Rayshawn in a SlingRider baby carrier made by San Diego-based Infantino. Bethea removed Rayshawn from the carrier—an over-the-shoulder sling—and found him unresponsive, and medical professionals were unable to revive him, according to the estate’s lead attorney, Alan Feldman of Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig in Philadelphia.
