Romulo Partoriza October 19, 2016
Erin Brockovich The Movie
In 1993, Erin Brockovich, an unemployed woman was involved in a car accident. This event changed her life forever. The doctor, who was involved in the accident wanted to sue her. Ed Masry, a lawyer representing Erin, lost the case because of her short temper. Realizing how she was unemployed, she tried her best to find a job even though she had limited skills. She finally landed a job at Ed Masry’s private law firm (the lawyer who was representing her for the car crash), who she called multiple times but never answered. Ed took pity on her because she knew she was unemployed, had no special skills and had three children but had the drive to work hard.
Erin’s job was to organize files for the private law firm until Ed decided to give her a real-estate case about Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) who wanted to buy the home of Donna Jensen, who lived in Hinkley, California. Upon reading the file, she was surprised to see medical records in a real-estate case so she decided to meet Donna for more information. It turns out that the family had health problems, and the only reason why she had medical records in the real-estate case was because she wanted her PG&E files together.
It turns out that, PG&E also sends in doctors to check on the family because of the risk of “chromium”, and that the company also wants to buy their home. This leads Erin suspicious and starts to find evidence that the water that the Hinkley residents was using was in fact contaminated by chromium-6, which can badly damage the human body. PG&E was lying to the residents of Hinkley, and Erin wanted justice for this. Erin convinced Ed to help with the problem so they could take PG&E down. This lawsuit proved to be difficult for Erin, Ed, and the Jensen’s until they all decided to convince the whole town that PG&E was the bad guy in this situation and that they lied to them. All, if not most of the residents signed in, to take PG&E down. Taking a break from here career to focus on her family life, Erin met a man named Charles Embry. He and his cousin were employees at PG&E and his cousin died from poison and was recruited to destroy documents about the incidents and any involvement of chromium-6 contaminating the water.
This significantly helped with the case and once and for all they took down PG&E for knowing that chromium-6 was infecting Hinkley’s waters and that they were trying to hide any evidence of it. PG&E had to pay a total of $333 million divided unto the residents of Hinkley. Erin Brockovich became a very successful woman, not for her skills, but for her morals knowing what’s right for everyone her hard work for justice.
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