Employee "Drama" and Workplace Injuries: Can they deny my workers' compensation claim because I was attacked for personal reasons?

Most of the time Texas Worker’s Compensation injuries occur for reasons that are strictly business and not personal. But sometimes the personal intrudes into the workplace. What happens to the Worker’s Compensation claim in that case? The personal animosity doctrine allows an insurance carrier to deny the claim when an employee is injured or killed because of personal reasons unrelated to the work by a third-party and the acts causing the injury were directed to the employee not as an employee or because of the work. Whether a claim really should be denied because of the personal animosity doctrine is complex and there are ways to get around these denials.