About Dillon Besser
Dillon Besser grew up in Topeka, Kansas, the son of a long-haul truck driver and a special education teacher. He attended William Jewell College in Missouri and then the University of Iowa College of Law, graduating in 2016. After four years in civil and criminal litigation at Elderkin and Pirnie PLC in Cedar Rapids, he joined RSH Legal in 2020.
Most of his practice focuses on workers' compensation: representing employees who have been injured on the job and are dealing with lost wages and medical needs. He previously served as a judicial intern in the Missouri Court of Appeals and as a research assistant to U of Iowa law professor Sheldon Kurtz. He is a past president of the Linn County Bar Association's Linn Law Club and a past president of the Iowa State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.
Proven verdicts and settlements at RSH Legal
These results are credited to RSH Legal. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Cedar Rapids' insurer paid $8 million to Jerime Mitchell, a quadriplegic man shot by Officer Lucas Jones during a 2016 traffic stop, in what attorneys described as the largest police-misconduct settlement in Iowa history.
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 Black Hawk County jury awarded $1.8 million to Massachusetts sound engineer Frank Sgambellone after a State of Iowa forklift operator ran over his ankle during post-concert teardown at the UNI-Dome in February 2016.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
