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Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993.
In 1993, legal clerk Erin Brockovich began an investigation into the health impacts of the contamination. A class-action lawsuit about the contamination was settled on July 2, 1996 for $333 million (around $634 million in 2023). In 2008, PG&E settled the last of the cases involved with the Hinkley claims.
[1] [2] With the help of his legal assistant Erin Brockovich, Masry built a case against the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) of California in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-winning film, Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry.
Environmental justice advocate Erin Brockovich will be speaking about Mississippi's water crisis at Tuesday's University Forum at USM.
The complaint was an offshoot of a $13.5 billion settlement that PG&E reached with the wildfire victims while the utility was mired in bankruptcy from January 2019 through June 2020.
The September wildfire destroyed dozens of homes and forced more than 11,000 residents to evacuate.
The residents of Hinkley filed a successful lawsuit against PG&E in which the company paid $333 million— [201] the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in U.S. history. [203] The legal case, dramatized in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, became an international cause célèbre.
Girardi, 85, whose pollution case against a California utility inspired the Oscar-winning film "Erin Brockovich," was accused of deceiving his clients and pilfering from settlement funds they had ...