the willful and intentional assault of either a fellow employee or a third person does not prevent the injury from being accidental within the meaning of the Act. Continental Life Ins. Co. v. Gough, 161 Va. 755, 759, 172 S.E. 264, 266 (1934). The Defendants cite Haddon v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 239 Va. 397, 389 S.E.2d 712 (1990), for the general proposition that the intentional tort of an employer or fellow employee falls within the scope of the Act. The Defendants fail to note, however, that the assault must be “personal to the employee and not directed against him as an employee or because of his employment.” Richmond Newspapers v. Hazelwood, 249 Va. 369, 373, 457 S.E.2d 56, 58 (1995) (citations omitted); see also City of Richmond v. Braxton, 230 Va. 161, 335 S.E.2d 259 (1985) (<HOLDING>). In the cases at hand, Williams and Miller
holding that language in employee handbook stating that it was not to be considered as creating terms and conditions of an employment contract and that the employment relationship was employment atwill  was sufficiently explicit to preclude the creation of implied contractual obligations as a matter of law holding that assault by employee against customer arising out of dispute concerning services that employee was performing not outside scope of employment as a matter of law holding that allegations of sexual assault by an employee of the church fell within coverage for sexual misconduct holding that an assault that occurred immediately after the employee was discharged was in the course of the employment holding that a sexual assault on a female employee was of a personal nature and not directed against the employee as part of the employment relationship