Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

Environmental Activist

The story of Erin Brockovich's investigation, legal triumph and personal issues were dramatized in the hit movie Erin Brockovich. As a law clerk, Erin's curiosity was piqued when she found medical records in a file on a pro bono real estate case. Erin's solo investigation resulted in the largest direct action lawsuit of its kind, and the largest legal settlement in U.S. history, paying out some $333 million in damages to more than 600 Hinkley residents.


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After being seriously injured in a traffic accident in Reno, Erin Brockovich moved back to Southern California with her children. In 1991, she hired the law firm of Masry and Vititoe to handle her car accident case. Although she received $17,000 in settlement money, it did not begin to cover her debts. 

Unable to find work, she soon begged Masry and Vititoe to hire her as a $1,200.00 a month file clerk. It was not long after she started to work at the law firm that some medical records she found in a file on a pro bono real estate case piqued her curiosity. After getting permission from the firm’s principal, Ed Masry, she began to look into the matter. 

Erin’s solo investigation eventually established that the health of countless people who lived in and around Hinkley, California in the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s had been devastated by exposure to toxic Chromium 6. The Chromium 6 had leaked into the groundwater from the nearby Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Compressor Station. In 1996, as a result of the largest direct action lawsuit of its kind, spearheaded by Erin Brockovich and Ed Masry, the giant utility was ordered to make the largest legal settlement in U.S. history, paying out some $333 million in damages to more than 600 Hinkley residents. The story of Erin’s investigation, legal triumph and personal issues were dramatized in the hit movie Erin Brockovich. 

As President of the consulting firm Brockovich Research & Consulting, Erin is involved in numerous major environmental cases.

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    November 2011

    Hot Water

    Colleton River, a new, one-of-a-kind nuclear facility designed to create medical isotopes with the potential to save millions of lives, has recently been plagued by a series of unexplained mishaps. The accidents have caused the locals to protest the plant, drawing the attention of an anti-nuclear protest group as well as several home-grown terrorists who sense an opportunity to sow fear and chaos. The plant's owner, Owen Grandel, has traveled from South Carolina to West Virginia to personally ask AJ for help. AJ knows she's going to have her hands full investigating the accidents and calming the situation at the plant. What she doesn't foresee is her simple business trip turning into disaster, with her family coming apart at the seams in her absence - and her young son disappearing. While AJ tries to find her missing child, she also discovers what caused the "accidents." Soon the plant begins hurtling towards nuclear catastrophe, with AJ stranded at ground zero. But can she save her son, herself, and the community - and prevent a nuclear meltdown before it's too late?


  • TakeItFromMe
    November 2002

    Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle But You Can Win

    Erin Brockovich delivers her irrepressible spirit and down-to-earth wisdom in Take It from Me, an inspiring trove of stories, lessons, and motivational strategies anyone can use to summon their inner strength and free the winning forces that lie within us all.