About Ben Long
Ben Long grew up in Marion, Iowa. He began his legal career representing insurance companies in defense work, but found he could not reconcile those clients' interests with his own values and switched to representing injured Iowans. He joined RSH Legal as an associate in 2014 and became a partner in 2024.
His cases have required him to study complex subjects including surgical anatomy, semi-trailer wheel mechanics, and vehicle data recorders. He attended the University of Iowa College of Law, where he received the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Outstanding Student in Trial Advocacy and won the Stephenson Trial Advocacy Competition in 2009. He and his wife Rebecca have been together since seventh grade.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Waterloo man lost all feeling below the waist after a cervical radiofrequency ablation at the C5-6 level in December 2014. A Black Hawk County jury found Dr. Ashar Afzal and Cedar Valley Medical Specialists negligent and awarded $7.36 million to him and his wife. The Iowa Court of Appeals affirmed in 2021.
Ross Hall died after what his family alleged was negligent cardiology care. The jury awarded $5,500,000, and the allocation is the striking part: only $250,000 for his own pain and suffering before death, and the remaining $5.25 million to his widow and three children for what they lost.
A Cerro Gordo County jury found Good Shepherd, a Mason City nursing home, negligent and willful and wanton in its care of an 84-year-old dementia resident who lost 43 pounds and died of dehydration in April 2015. It awarded her four children $150,000 in compensatory and $750,000 in punitive damages. The Iowa Court of Appeals affirmed in 2018.
Seven adult children of an 84-year-old resident of Mill Valley Care Center in Jackson County, Iowa, sued after she fell from the toilet in January 2016 and died five days later of head injuries. A jury found the home negligent in December 2019 and awarded $800,000 in compensatory damages plus $1.37 million in punitive damages. The trial court set aside the punitive award, and the Iowa Court of Appeals affirmed in 2021, so the $800,000 compensatory award stood.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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