Principal Shot While Driving to Work Entitled to Benefits

A former middle school principal who took a shotgun blast to the face while commuting to work three years ago is entitled to temporary total disability benefits, the North Carolina appellate court ruled.Police have yet to determine who shot James Hunt, or why, but the Court of Appeals concluded that sufficient evidence supported the state Industrial Commission's conclusion that the attack was tied to his administrative efforts to address gang problems at Fairmont Middle School in Robeson County.The case is Hunt v. North Carolina Industrial Commission et al., No. W18411.On the morning of Ap...