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In 1993, ErinBrockovich is an unemployed single mother of three children, who has recentlybeen injured in a traffic accident with a doctor and is suing him. Her lawyer,Ed Masry, expects to win, but Erin's explosivecourtroom behavior under cross-examination loses her the case, and Ed will notreturn her phone calls afterwards. One day, he arrives at work to find her inthe office, apparently working. She says that he told her things would work outand they did not, and that she needed a job. Ed takes pity on Erin,and she gets a paid job at the office.
Erin is givenfiles for a real estate case where the Pacific Gas and Electric Company(PG&E) is offering to purchase the home of Donna Jensen, a resident of Hinkley, California.Erin is surprised to see medical records inthe file and visits Donna, who explains that she had simply kept all herPG&E correspondence together. Donna appreciates PG&E's help: she hashad several tumors and her husband has Hodgkin's lymphoma, but PG&E hasalways supplied a doctor at their own expense. Erinasks why they would do that, and Donna replies, "because of thechromium". Erin begins digging into thecase and finds evidence that the groundwater in Hinkley is seriouslycontaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, but PG&E has beentelling Hinkley residents that they use a safer form of chromium. After severaldays away from the office doing this research, she is fired by Ed until herealizes that she was working all the time, and sees what she has found out.
Rehired, shecontinues her research, and over time, visits many Hinkley residents and winstheir trust. She finds many cases of tumors and other medical problems inHinkley. Everyone has been treated by PG&E's doctors and thinks the clusterof cases is just a coincidence, unrelated to the "safe" chromium. TheJensens' claim for compensation grows into a major class action lawsuit, butthe direct evidence only relates to PG&E's Hinkley plant, not to the seniormanagement.
Knowing thatPG&E could slow any settlement for years through delays and appeals, Edtakes the opportunity to arrange for disposition by binding arbitration, but alarge majority of the plaintiffs must agree to this. Erinreturns to Hinkley and persuades all 634 plaintiffs to go along. While she isthere, a man named Charles Embry approaches her to say that he and his cousinwere PG&E employees, but his cousin recently died from the poison. The mansays he was tasked with destroying documents at PG&E, but, "as itturns out," he "wasn't a very good employee".
Embry gives Erin the documents, which include a 1966 memo provingcorporate headquarters knew the water was contaminated with hexavalentchromium, did nothing about it, and advised the Hinkley operation to keep thissecret. The judge orders PG&E to pay a settlement amount of $333 million tobe distributed among the plaintiffs.
In the aftermath,Ed hands Erin her bonus payment for the casebut warns her he has changed the amount. She explodes into a complaint that shedeserves more respect, but is astonished to find that he has increased it—to $2million.
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