EOC: Week 2 Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich is a movie based on a true story.  The movie is about a woman in her mid 30's struggling to feed her 3 children and to make matters worse is unemployed and attempting to sew a doctor for running her over.  Erin's behavior during court causes her to loose her case and decides to vent off to her lawyer.  She then surprises her lawyer by storming into his firm and demanding him to employ her in exchange for loosing her case.  It didn't take long for Erin to keep busy that's when she discovered the water issue that was happening in the town.  As time goes by and research builds up she then realizes a pattern that is happening in these homes.  It turns out the neighbors around this factory are becoming ill and so are their families.  Erin and her boss Ed approach PG & E regarding these cases and of course they offer a settlement of $250,000 for each family which  they refused.  As the movie goes Erin continues to look into this and comes to find out that there was chromium in their water which was causing illnesses and serious health issues.  As the movie ends PG& E decides to settle for a compensation of $333 million dollars to be split equally among the families, 40% of that money was agreed to go to Ed for taking on the case.  Of course Erin deserved the credit for taking this case on and she was also awarded $2 million on her share.