Ben Baker

Ben has been a member of the Personal Injury and Products Liability Section at Beasley Allen Law Firm since 2001 and has worked on various litigation cases. He has received verdicts and settlements in numerous cases, resulting in multi-million-dollar recoveries for his clients.

Before joining Beasley Allen, Ben graduated from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in 1993 and began law practice with Birmingham, Alabama firm Emond & Vines. He is a former partner in the Birmingham firm Hogan, Smith & Alspaugh.

A native of Ozark, Alabama, Ben is married to Kimberly Strag of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Together, they have a daughter and two sons.

Community Involvement

Ben has been actively involved in various organizations such as the Paseo movement in Alabama, which is part of the Anglican 4th-day movement. He has also served as a board member of the Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving historic structures. Additionally, he has previously held the position of board of directors’ president of The Least, a prison ministry.

Licenses

• Alabama (1993)
• Georgia (1993)

Education

• Cumberland School of Law (J.D., 1993)
• Auburn University (B.S. Architecture, 1990)

Notable Cases

Ben is a skilled trial lawyer and has obtained multi-million-dollar verdicts against major corporations. 

Ben and Chris Glover, the Managing Attorney for the Atlanta office, worked together to secure a $12 million verdict against Toyota Motor Corp. and Toyota Motor Sales USA in Anderson, South Carolina state court. They were representing the family of a high school senior who lost her life due to a defective rear axle in a Toyota 4Runner. The axle defect caused it to break, resulting in the vehicle becoming uncontrollable and rolling into a power pole. 

In 2017, Ben was a member of the trial team that won $16.8 million in damages over a defective cab guard that the jury found failed to protect a log truck driver from being killed by logs that broke through the truck’s cab. He has also obtained a $12 million verdict against a cab guard manufacturer for a defective product in a crashworthiness case.

In 2014, Ben’s trial team was awarded $9.9 million by a Bessemer, Alabama jury in a case against Mazda Motor Corp. The case involved a post-collision, fuel-fed fire in a 2008 Mazda 3 vehicle that collided with a pole. Mazda had designed the vehicle inconsistent with industry standards by placing an unguarded muffler next to the fuel tank, which ruptured the tank during the impact.

In 2013, Ben was part of the trial team that won a $3 million verdict against Toyota. The case was the first in the US to claim that Toyota’s throttle control software was defective and could lead to unintended acceleration. The jury also awarded punitive damages, but the case was settled before the punitive phase of the trial.