David Casey III

Associate Attorney at CaseyGerry
San Diego, CA

About David Casey III

David S. Casey III is an associate attorney at CaseyGerry specializing in personal injury and complex litigation. He has handled hundreds of personal injury matters since joining the firm in 2019. He attended the Trial Lawyers College in Wyoming in 2018 for intensive trial skills training and completed an additional week there in 2025. In 2020 he tried multiple criminal cases as a volunteer deputy district attorney through the TAP program in San Diego County.

In law school he externed for Judge Anthony Battaglia of the Southern District of California and received a CALI Award in Employment Law and Technology. He currently serves on the boards of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego and the Consumer Attorneys of California, and is a 2023 graduate of the San Diego County Bar Leadership Academy. A third-generation CaseyGerry attorney, he is the son of David S. Casey, Jr. and grandson of firm founder David S. Casey. He has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2021.

Proven verdicts and settlements at CaseyGerry

These results are credited to CaseyGerry. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$393.5 millionSettlement

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.

U.S. District Court, Central District of California (8:17-ml-02797) · 2019Class ActionsRead the full story →
$117.5 millionSettlement

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.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose) · 2020Class ActionsRead the full story →
$47 millionSettlement

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.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (MDL 3:24-md-03098) · 2026Class ActionsRead the full story →
$15 millionSettlement

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.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (MDL 11-md-2258) · 2014Class ActionsRead the full story →
$10.8 millionSettlement

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.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego) · 2022Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of San Diego School of Law
J.D.
University of Chicago
Undergraduate

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.