Gambling Settlements by Year and Amount

The largest gambling settlement on record is the USD 415,000,000 DoubleDown Casino settlement, approved by the Western District of Washington on 1 June 2023 (2:18-cv-00525), and the list below holds every gambling settlement with a published fund, by year and amount.

Sums are per currency, never converted, and a fund is gross unless the row says otherwise. A settlement amount is not a payout: shares depend on fees, costs, the claim rate and the plan of allocation, and every per-person figure on this site is an estimate with its formula.

Gross funds by the year the status was set; a shared fund is counted once; Pulsz 2026 is an estimated total benefit, mostly Gold Coins, not a cash fund (FLAGGED); checked 14 November 2026.

Which of these settlements still pay out

4 of the settlements on this page accept claims as of 14 November 2026: the Pulsz six-state settlement to 30 November 2026, the High 5 Games Washington settlement to 4 January 2027 per the settlement site, and the New York Attorney General's VGW redemption to 31 August 2027, an administrative settlement, not a court case.

Everything else on this page is closed or paid, and no gambling-addiction class action has ever paid a player. The rows below come from 19 categories of all gambling lawsuits by category.

Filing a claim is free; we are not a law firm and not an administrator. The deadline, proof and claim-site detail for the three open ones is on open gambling class action settlements by deadline.

Gambling settlements by year and amount: the full list

4 year blocks follow, newest first, each with its row count and its totals per currency. A fund shared by two records is counted once, Pulsz appears at its estimated total benefit rather than a cash fund, and the 2014 lottery row is a prize at stake with the settlement amount confidential.

The ten largest gambling settlements on record

The ten largest gambling settlements on record, by gross fund and in their own currency, include three social casino settlements from the Western District of Washington: DoubleDown, Big Fish and Playtika. The ten also span shareholder settlements, an antitrust settlement, a patent settlement, a data breach settlement and the FTC's Fortnite refund order.

Gross fund, net fund and what was actually paid

A gross fund is what the defendant pays in; the class receives the net fund, the gross fund less attorney fees, costs, administration and incentive awards, divided across valid claims.

DoubleDown shows the gap: USD 415,000,000 gross fund, USD 121,485,000 in attorney fees (29.3 percent), administration capped at USD 3,000,000 and about USD 290,000,000 net, paid pro rata on lifetime spend in escalating tiers, with distribution totals not published. Fee detail is in attorney fees in gambling class actions.

Fees were 25 percent of the fund in the four Washington social casino settlements of 2021 and 2022 and one third in Wynn, per class counsel.

Pulsz requests up to 30 percent and High 5 up to 35 percent, and neither request is an award. Zynga's USD 12,000,000 fund was about 21 percent of USD 57,000,000 in lifetime class spend, with an adjusted claims rate of 25.25 percent.

Three amounts are published as paid. Crown China-arrests distributed a residual of about AUD 81.6 million to 14,018 registered members, while Maurice Blackburn reports AUD 82.8 million; the FTC's Fortnite refunds exceeded USD 198 million in two rounds with FTC averages of USD 114 and about USD 130; and Light & Wonder paid Aristocrat USD 127,500,000.

No gambling class settlement publishes an average per claimant, so estimate a share with the gambling settlement payout per person calculator.

What is not on this list: judgments, penalties and proposed settlements

Court penalties, upheld tax or concession payments and jury verdicts are not settlements and are not on this page, however large: AUSTRAC v Crown's AUD 450,000,000 civil penalty of 11 July 2023 and AUSTRAC v Star's AUD 260,000,000 penalty of 28 October 2026 are judgments.

The Conseil d'État upheld FDJ's EUR 380,000,000 exclusive-rights payment to the state on 30 September 2025, and all three belong with regulators and attorneys general in court.

Proposed settlements without an approval order stay off the list until the order exists. The Amazon social casino settlement is a USD 201,355,607.75 covenant judgment, not enforced against Amazon, with status filed as of 9 July 2026 and no preliminary approval order found as of 14 November 2026.

Confidential settlements such as Fischer v. DraftKings carry no amount, and the High 5 jury judgment of 11 June 2025, USD 24,928,712.17 to the class, is superseded here by the USD 12,000,000 to 30,000,000 settlement.

How this tracker is built

Every row is a query over the case records: a case enters the list when its status is claims-open, settled-preliminary, settled-final, claims-closed, paid or certified and its record carries a fund greater than zero, and it is filed under the year its status was set.

Sums are per currency and never converted, and the CSV carries stable ids under CC BY 4.0 at open data: download the case database.

Status words come from a fixed list, and paid means a payment date is on record. A newer court order or administrator notice replaces a recorded amount, and the record is then corrected. The steps are laid out in how a gambling class action works, step by step.

Questions people ask

What is the biggest gambling settlement?

The USD 415,000,000 DoubleDown Casino settlement, Benson v. Double Down Interactive, W.D. Wash. 2:18-cv-00525, final approval 1 June 2023, claims closed 11 April 2023, is the largest gambling settlement in the record; the largest consumer refund order is the FTC's USD 245,000,000 Fortnite order.

What is the biggest class action payout per person in a gambling case?

No gambling class settlement publishes a per-person figure; reader-reported payments to aggregators are not administrator figures, and the only official averages are the FTC's Fortnite rounds, USD 114 and about USD 130. The formula is in class action payout per person in gambling settlements.

Is the Huuuge Casino settlement still open?

Closed: the USD 6,500,000 gross fund Huuuge Casino settlement (W.D. Wash. 3:18-cv-05276) closed its claims on 4 January 2021 and received final approval on 11 February 2021, with fees of USD 1,625,000; no new claims are accepted. The case record is Huuuge Casino settlement.

Out of scope on this page

Questions outside gambling settlements are not answered here:

• The biggest lawsuit payout in history and the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
• What happens if you win USD 100,000 at a casino
• The average debt of a gambler, and the largest gambling site

Penalties and fines by year sit with the regulator cases. Sourcing: methodology.