See You in Court

You rarely think of emergency workers as victims. But Detective Inspector Brian Baker, who claimed that exposure to confiscated dried cannabis had given him serious breathing problems, caused him to snore and created marital discord, sued Northumbria Police and won an out-of-court settlement of $9,800. Former ambulance paramedic Philip Howe is suing the Greater Manchester Ambulance Service for "acute psychological stresses" caused by attending accidents during his 12-year career. And police-dog handler Alan Ross hopes to be paid $21,000 by Grampian Police over claims that 14 years of barking Alsatians in enclosed police vans has left him with hearing...