Court: Medical Resident's Wounds From Mass Shooting at Hospital Compensable

New York’s highest court unanimously ruled that when an employee is injured in an attack at work, his injuries are presumed to be compensable and that the lack of evidence as to the motivation for the assault does not rebut the presumption. On June 30, 2017, Dr. Henry Bello entered the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital wearing a doctor's white medical coat, under which he hid a loaded AR-15 rifle, ammunition magazines and a juice container filled with gasoline. Bello was a physician at the hospital until his resignation in February 2015 following an allegation that he had ...