A whopping $330 million.
Her name is Erin Brockovich.
was turned into a movie.
which inspired many people.
Erin is not a lucky woman.
But in the courtroom.
One was a famous, rich doctor.
The other was a woman with a high school education.
Erin couldn't help herself.
She cursed.
It's over. She's lost the lawsuit.
Now she had $74 left in her wallet.
She only had $74 left.
Desperate.
Erin went to the law firm where she had lost her case.
She said she was looking for a job, but it was more like a fight.
The old lawyer agreed.
changed the course of her life.
That day, while sorting through her files.
She found something suspicious.
There was a medical record in the real estate file.
Not only was she suffering from cancer, but her body was also reacting to toxins.
She went to ask her colleagues for advice.
But no one would talk to her.
She had to find out for herself.
Erin drove to the woman.
It also paid her faster than the insurance company.
The reason is that the power plant emits a chemical element called chromium.
But they say it's good for your health.
Erin became suspicious.
She went to a chemistry professor for advice.
Chromium is very common in power plants.
It's added to water to prevent engines from rusting.
But there are many different kinds of chromium.
It can easily cause cancer.
It can also invade back into the DNA
It can be passed on to the next generation
The professor advised Erin
Want to know the details
You can go to the local water quality to find information
Erin immediately went there
There she found out the truth of the matter
What the power company was discharging.
It was the highly toxic hexavalent chromium.
And the levels were already way over the limit.
That's how the woman got cancer.
The woman couldn't believe it.
Because the doctor said her illness had nothing to do with chromium.
But Erin reminded her.
The doctor was hired by the power company.
Looking at Erin's serious eyes
The woman panicked.
That's when she saw the children playing in the pool.
She rushed out and got them out of the water.
Because the water was also contaminated with hexavalent chromium
Looking at them
Erin, who was also a mother, was touched.
She was determined
She was determined to get justice for the local people.
She took the evidence she found.
She persuaded her lawyer to take the case.
They sent the information they had found to the power company.
They sent an employee to negotiate.
But the price offered was $250,000.
When she was refused, she arrogantly threatened the lawyer.
You can't go up against a $28 billion company.
You can't do that.
This statement completely angered the lawyer.
He was furious.
Now they were getting serious.
Erin started looking for evidence overnight.
And her seriousness
And she impressed her colleagues at the firm.
That was the day the case took a turn for the worse.
The law firm received two important witnesses.
These chickens in the photo had tumors all over their bodies.
They had been unable to walk since they were born.
And the cause was a deadly pollutant emitted from the local power plant.
Hexavalent chromium
Not only did it cause the animals to become sick
But also gave cancer to the people around them
Among them were even children under 11 years old
Looking at the girl's face.
Erin's heart hurt even more.
She decided to fight the power company to the bitter end.
She began to gather evidence.
She knocked on every door.
She personally investigated the symptoms of each resident.
Even though she occasionally got shut out.
Erin didn't give up.
The results of the investigation were horrific
Gastrointestinal cancer tumor rash
None of the residents living here were healthy
The problem was more serious than she had imagined
Erin began to collect samples of sewage
She went near the black-hearted company
Gutters, wells, even dead frogs.
No matter how dirty it was, she took samples of everything.
But in the process
The black-hearted company found out what she was doing
They were on to her.
That night, Erin received a threatening phone call.
They said, "Be careful, you have three children.
Erin was stunned.
She played it cool, but she panicked.
She wasn't afraid of anything.
She was afraid that her children would be hurt.
When her boyfriend found out
Had a fight with her
He said you only care about the case
You don't care about the safety of your child
Do you know how much trouble this will bring to the family?
When she heard that.
Erin didn't say anything.
But her heart was a little shaken
Until one day she was approached by a man.
He was an employee of a shady company.
He told Erin a lot of dark secrets
It turned out that Erin had not been able to find the source of pollution
Because the black-hearted company secretly discharged the sewage containing hexavalent chromium
Into a nearby pond.
Then they filled them up again.
So that no evidence would remain.
But the cost was
For 14 years, the highly toxic effluent continued to permeate the soil
Until it contaminated the groundwater.
The groundwater is the drinking water for all the residents.
And now their bodies are being eaten by hexavalent chromium.
Then Erin went to visit the woman who supported her the most.
The woman had been diagnosed with uterine and breast cancer.
She asked Erin.
Would I be a woman if I had them removed?
Finally she broke down.
Looking at the desperate woman
Erin's eyes were red.
She had to succeed.
Luckily, the court ruled in the first instance
The charges against the shady company were upheld.
Erin and her lawyer had a preliminary victory.
But the company didn't give up.
They had hired the best team of lawyers at great expense.
to negotiate with Erin and the girls.
The black-hearted lawyers said disdainfully
"You'll never make $20 million in your lifetime, will you?
When Erin heard this, she was furious.
She said excitedly
"$20 million for over 400 victims.
It's not enough to cure them
And those victims
Some had uterine cancer.
Some have spinal degeneration
She asked the shady lawyer loudly
Will you sell your spine for $20 million?
The black-hearted lawyer did not dare to speak
She wanted to take a sip of water to calm down.
But Erin told her
The water was brought in from a contaminated area.
It contains highly toxic hexavalent chromium.
Now the lawyer is afraid to move
It was a good fight for Erin.
But before she could rejoice.
The lawyer told her that the firm's partner was taking over the case.
But he didn't believe in Erin's strength.
He didn't want to work with Erin.
His assistant said that Erin hadn't prepared all the documents.
She didn't even have the plaintiff's phone number.
She was not fit to continue the investigation.
Erin got angry.
She said, "Whose phone number do you want?
I'll give it to you right now.
The assistant gave a random name.
Erin didn't hesitate.
Immediately gave her phone name
The symptoms of the cancer.
Even her aunt and uncle's condition.
Erin knew everything.
Now the partners looked at Erin differently
She was really taking care of each and every one of her victims.
The partner told her.
Now the shady company changed its strategy.
They're letting their employees take the blame.
Claiming that the employees were discharging the highly toxic hexavalent chromium.
The company didn't know about it
And pretended to be a good guy and said they were willing to pay compensation
But there's a catch.
Erin, they had to get 90% of the plaintiffs to agree.
They had to find 634 plaintiffs.
Erin and her attorney gathered the injured residents together.
Convinced them to sign an appeal.
But Erin counted them.
150 to go.
But at this point, the court date
There were only five days left.
Erin and her attorney were running around.
Finding people who had lived in the contaminated areas.
Going door to door, asking them to sign the appeal.
From day to night.
From downtown to the suburbs.
One after another
Every day when she got home.
Erin would just collapse on the couch.
Finally, there was only one last one left.
Erin came to a bar.
The owner was very nice
He signed the contract without saying a word
Just then a man sat down
At first Erin thought he was here to talk to her
But the man said
He was an employee of a shady company
He knew that Erin had been investigating the company.
This time he came to tell the truth.
He said his cousin was in charge of cleaning the cooling towers at the company.
But the shady company didn't even spare its own employees
They were never told.
The toxins there could kill them.
Eventually his cousin developed cancer.
His mouth and nose were bleeding and blood soaked through his mask.
He was only 41 years old when he died.
Now the employee wanted to avenge his cousin's death.
He gave Erin some confidential documents.
This is the proof.
It's damning evidence that the black-hearted company knew about the dangers of the contaminants.
With this evidence.
And 634 signatures from the plaintiffs.
They finally won the battle.
Then Erin and her boyfriend went to the original victim's house.
To tell her the great news.
The judge ruled.
The shady company will pay $333 million.
The woman was so excited that she cried and laughed.
hugged Erin tightly
And the boyfriend looked at the scene
And finally understood
What a great thing Erin had done
This lawsuit became the highest civil lawsuit
The highest civil lawsuit ever filed in the United States
And it changed Erin's life forever.
The day the lawyer came to Erin.
He said, "Because you're not a real lawyer.
So the money you're going to get
will not be what you expected.
Erin was a little angry not because she didn't like the money.
It's why they didn't approve of her after all the work she'd done.
But then the lawyer put down the check.
Erin looked at the amount on it and was stunned.
$2 million, the most money she'd ever received in her life.
But her hard work, her intransigence.
Worthy of this value.
And worthy of this miraculous change.
This is a true story.
The real Erin had a cameo as a waitress in the film.
Now she's still active in the legal profession.
She works on environmental and women's rights litigation.
Erin is still moving forward.
She still won't compromise.
Her experience makes us believe
As long as she is moving in the right direction
Never compromise on good and evil
Justice will come in the end
(End)
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