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About Michael Benke
Michael Benke is part of the CaseyGerry complex litigation and fire litigation team. He earned his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) with a concurrent Master of Public Policy from Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, focusing on quantitative methods. During law school he externed for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. After law school he served in the chambers of California Supreme Court Justice Joyce L. Kennard, then gained trial and appellate experience with the economic crimes and appellate divisions of the San Diego County District Attorney's Office.
He later served as a research assistant to Associate Justice Joan Irion at the Fourth District Court of Appeal and has argued before the California Court of Appeal. Michael is also a medical doctor, holding an M.D. from Saint George's University earned on an academic merit scholarship. He completed clinical rotations through Eisenhower Hospital, Desert Regional Medical Center, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, and the Santa Clara County hospital system. He is licensed to practice law in California and New York, including the federal Southern District of New York, and is fluent in Spanish.
Proven verdicts and settlements at CaseyGerry
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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.
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