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About Ben Agosto III
Ben Agosto III is a Senior Associate at Abraham Watkins. A born-and-raised Houstonian, Ben was a champion policy debater in high school at Klein High School. He earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of South Florida and his J.D. from South Texas College of Law Houston in 2017, distinguishing himself as a national champion moot court advocate and a Langdell Scholar.
After a clerkship with the Honorable Larry Weiman of the 80th District Court in Harris County and three years at The Buzbee Law Firm, Ben joined Abraham Watkins in 2021 and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2025. His practice spans commercial vehicle and trucking accidents, industrial and refinery disasters, railroad injury litigation, maritime and offshore claims, toxic exposure, premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice, and wrongful death. He has been selected as a Texas Rising Star by Super Lawyers for four consecutive years (2023-2026) and recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in three practice areas.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Abraham Watkins
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A Harris County jury found ExxonMobil 100% responsible for a July 2019 explosion at its Baytown olefins plant caused by decades-ignored popcorn polymer buildup, awarding five injured workers $28,591,000 after three weeks of trial.
A Harris County jury awarded about $21 million to Santiago Arias, a construction worker paralyzed from the chest down after falling roughly 20 feet at a Houston job site where his employer had provided no fall-protection equipment or safety training.
A federal jury awarded Kimberly Curtis $2 million in compensatory and $30 million in punitive damages after a sliding barn door fell on her at a Manhattan Hilton Garden Inn and defendants were found to have willfully destroyed evidence; a judge later cut the punitive award to $10 million.
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