What the record shows
Galvin Law Group has served as class counsel in energy and ratepayer class actions that followed failed nuclear construction and political corruption. The figures below are the public settlement and court descriptions, not marketing inventions.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Class counsel works with co-counsel. The Ohio filing lists Gregory M. Galvin as counsel of record.
$2 billion-plus — SCE&G / SCANA, V.C. Summer
Class counsel in the South Carolina Electric & Gas / SCANA ratepayer class action arising from the abandoned V.C. Summer nuclear units. On November 24, 2018, PR Newswire named Gregory Galvin of Galvin Law Group among class counsel with Strom Law Firm, RPWB, Bell Legal Group, McGowan Hood & Felder, Speights & Solomons, and Savage Royall & Sheheen. Attorney General Alan Wilson described the settlement as more than $2 billion in benefits — “the largest of its kind in the history of South Carolina.”
PR Newswire · RPWB · Utility Dive
Santee Cooper — $520 million and 1.7 million customers
Class counsel in Cook v. Santee Cooper (Greenville County, Case No. 2019-CP-23-6675). The court-approved settlement created a $520 million common-benefit fund — $320 million from Dominion Energy and $200 million from Santee Cooper — plus a multi-year rate freeze that plaintiff counsel valued in the hundreds of millions. The official class notice lists Galvin Law Group, LLC among appointed class counsel.
Class FAQ (counsel list) · Post and Courier
FirstEnergy / Householder — Ohio
Counsel of record for the plaintiff class in Emmons v. FirstEnergy Corp., Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, CV 20 935557 — the Ohio action filed as the Householder / Generation Now investigation became public. Gregory M. Galvin, Ohio Bar No. 0075612, signed the second amended class complaint. The related federal case Smith v. FirstEnergy, S.D. Ohio 2:20-cv-3755, produced a $49 million cash settlement for Ohio Edison, Toledo Edison, and Illuminating Company customers.
Emmons complaint (DocumentCloud) · Ohio electricity litigation · PR Newswire ($49 million)
