About Kendall Dunson
Kendall Dunson joined Beasley Allen in 1999. He focuses on product liability, general personal injury, and workers' compensation cases involving defective industrial machinery. Among his notable verdicts was his first jury verdict against Goldkist Farms, where his client lost her husband due to the negligent operation of a forklift, resulting in a meaningful recovery for a surviving family. He has served as president of both the Alabama Lawyers Association and the Capital City Bar Association, was inducted into ABOTA in 2017, and into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2022. Kendall grew up in LaGrange, Georgia.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Clarke County jury awarded Leonard Street $150 million and his wife Tracy $10 million after finding that Daimler Truck North America and Western Star had defectively designed the cab of the 2023 Western Star he was driving, using a roof structure dating to 1995 and a suspension seat that did not hold him in place when the truck rolled.
A Dallas County, Alabama jury awarded Travaris Smith $151.8 million after a 1998 Ford Explorer rolled twice and severed his spinal cord, finding Ford failed its own safety standards and destroyed test data to conceal the defect.
A Marlboro County jury awarded a 62-year-old woman $30 million after her Nissan Altima rolled forward on its own while she was locked outside it, climbing a parking barrier and pinning her against a gas station building, a result her attorneys traced to metal debris fouling the transmission's forward clutch.
A Mobile County jury found in June 2023 that the passenger airbag in a 1998 Infiniti QX4 was defective and awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages to a girl who lost the sight of her left eye in a low-speed crash at age 15. Nissan challenged the verdict on appeal. In October 2025 the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the finding of a safer alternative design but sent the new-trial motion back to the trial court, so the verdict is not yet final.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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