Woman awarded $4 Million for repeated electric shock in shower

A Los Angeles County jury awarded a woman $4 million after stray electricity from a next-door substation repeatedly shocked her in the shower, nynewsdaily.com reported March. 21.

Simona Wilson, of Redondo Beach, Calif., experienced low-voltage electrocution each time she adjusted the new, metal shower head installed in her home in March 2011, according to Redondo Beach Patch. She said the jolts left her with nerve damage.

Symptoms that began as nausea and headaches turned into numb arms, legs and feet by that April, Easy Reader reported. Her condition forced her to make several trips to the emergency room. According to the Los Angeles Times, the nerve damage eventually developed into a condition called erythromelalgia.

Wilson, a mother of three, suspected the shower head was to blame when her boyfriend, Jason Stelle, also experienced a tingling feeling as he touched it.