About Scott Cummins

Scott Cummins is an experienced product liability and insurance bad faith coverage lawyer who has handled multi-million-dollar cases against aircraft and product manufacturers and insurance companies. He began his career at Luce Forward Hamilton and Scripps, handling business and product liability litigation, and later co-founded Sullivan Cummins Wertz McDade and Wallace, an 18-lawyer firm, before becoming of counsel to CaseyGerry. In 1999 he co-founded Insurex, a commercial insurance services business operating in 40 states through more than 1,000 affiliates. He holds a California Insurance Broker license (Lic.

OD22998) and has served on the City of San Diego Small Business Advisory Board and the La Jolla Youth Soccer League Board. He was named to Best Lawyers in 2020 and 2021. In his spare time he enjoys tennis, sailing, and surfing.

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

Loyola Law School
J.D.
University of Southern California
Undergraduate

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