CaseyGerry

In multidistrict litigation before Judge Andrew J. Guilford, CaseyGerry served as class counsel in a $393.5 million settlement resolving allegations that Wells Fargo secretly loaded unnecessary collateral protection insurance onto auto loan accounts, pushing hundreds of thousands of borrowers into delinquency and causing roughly 27,000 wrongful vehicle repossessions.

As court-appointed lead plaintiffs' counsel, Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis negotiated the $117.5 million settlement resolving claims from Yahoo's 2013-2016 data breaches, the largest theft of personal data in history, touching roughly 3 billion accounts worldwide. Judge Lucy Koh approved the fund in 2020 after rejecting an earlier version as inadequate.

Gayle Blatt of CaseyGerry served as court-appointed co-lead counsel in a multidistrict proceeding against 23andMe, securing a $46.75 million settlement for approximately 6.9 million customers whose genetic ancestry profiles and personal data were stolen in a 2023 credential-stuffing attack.

Gayle Blatt of Casey Gerry served on the plaintiffs' leadership committee in the consolidated MDL arising from the 2011 hack of Sony's PlayStation Network, which exposed the personal data of approximately 77 million accounts, resulting in a $15 million class settlement.

A Navy veteran lost his right leg and the use of his arm after a Navy-operated van triggered a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 5; CaseyGerry secured a $10.8 million settlement, described as the largest federal vehicle-collision settlement in San Diego history.

John Hendrickson, 45, lost his lower left leg after a head-on collision with an on-duty Border Patrol pickup on the Otay Mountain Truck Trail in San Diego County on Aug. 27, 2009. After a four-day bench trial under the Federal Tort Claims Act, Judge Larry Burns found damages of $6,338,491, assigned 85 percent of the fault to the United States and 15 percent to Hendrickson, and entered judgment for $5,387,717.35 in June 2014.

Scott Eveland, a 17-year-old Mission Hills High School linebacker, collapsed with bleeding on the brain during a Sept. 14, 2007 game and was left severely disabled. His family sued the San Marcos Unified School District, alleging the head coach played him over the athletic trainer's advice after he reported a severe headache. The district's $4.375 million settlement was finalized in March 2012, following a $500,000 settlement with helmet maker Riddell.