Dive Summary:
- Simona Wilson, a mother of three young children, has been awarded $4 million by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury after suing Southern California Edison (SCE).
- Wilson alleged that she was repeatedly shocked in her own home by stray electricity from nearby SCE power lines; Wilson moved out of her house in 2011 after an inspector told her to "get out" immediately.
- A letter from a former Edison employee said that residents in the area had been voicing similar complaints for year while many believe stray electricity is being conducted through subterranean gas pipes; an official from The Gas Co. testified that they had been trying to get Edison to do something about the problem for years and that there is "electricity jumping off the lines and into the ground."
From the article:
"... During the civil trial, one of Edison's expert witnesses testified that the electrical current residents felt was within 'acceptable' levels.
'Edison still denies that there is anything dangerous in the area and denies that they did anything wrong,' Johnson said. ..."