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ALTHOUGH THE DOCTOR WAS AT WORK AT THE HOSPITAL WHEN HE WAS SHOT DURING A MASS SHOOTING, HIS INJURY WAS NOT WORK-RELATED WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Workers’ Compensation Board, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Reynolds Fitzgerald, determined the shooting of a doctor, Justin Timperio, although it occurred while Timperio was working at the hospital, was not a work-related injury within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Law. Timperio had brought a negligence lawsuit against the hospital in federal court and, in the context of the hospital’s motion for summary judgment, the federal court ruled the injuries did not arise from Timperio’s employment. The federal ruling did not colaterally estop the Workers’ Compensation Board from considering the claim in the first place (because it was not a final ruling), but the Board’s ultimate conclusion the injury was work-related was reversed by the Third Department:

The undisputed facts in the record demonstrate that the attack was perpetrated by an individual who was not employed by the hospital at the time of the attack (and had not worked there for over two years), was not and never was Timperio’s coworker, did not know Timperio and provided no reason for the attack prior to taking his own life. Nor did Timperio know the attacker, and there is no evidence that the attack was based upon an employment-related animus between the two individuals or that the attack had any nexus to Timperio’s employment or “performance of h[is] job duties” … . Such proof was sufficient to rebut the presumption articulated in Workers’ Compensation Law § 21 (1) and to establish that the assault on Timperio resulted exclusively from arbitrary, broad-sweeping and gravely maligned personal animosity and not from work-related differences with Timperio … . Matter of Timperio v Bronx-Lebanon Hosp., 2022 NY Slip Op 00711, Third Dept 2-3-22

 

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