About Ben Fadler
Ben Fadler is an attorney at Ketchmark & McCreight, P.C. who joined the firm in 2013 after spending nearly a decade representing insurance companies and large corporations on the defense side. That background gives him direct insight into how carriers evaluate claims and how carriers assess exposure and set reserves from the opposing perspective, which he applies when advocating for injured plaintiffs. Colleagues describe him as a trial lawyer's trial lawyer who prepares every file with the assumption that it will go to a jury, regardless of how settlement discussions are progressing. Fadler has experience in Missouri and Kansas county courthouses as well as federal courtrooms, and has been instrumental in resolving numerous large cases, including several that settled before formal litigation was filed. He is described internally as someone who is steady, well-prepared, and direct with clients about where their case stands.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Clay County, Missouri jury awarded $76 million to the family of David Ford, a 48-year-old delivery driver crushed by moving machinery while dropping off vehicle seats at Ford Motor Company's Kansas City Assembly Plant. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict in full in 2019.
A Monroe County jury awarded $58.6 million, including $56.6 million in punitive damages, to James Graham, a Hannibal food plant worker who developed the irreversible lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans after years of exposure to Givaudan butter flavoring chemicals. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in full in April 2026.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
