to "Community Alternatives” in this opinion. 2 .This court affirmed the trial court’s ruling that Ms. Monroe's claim was preempted. Byrd v. VOCA Corp. of Washington, D.C., 962 A.2d 927, 929-30, 934-35 (D.C.2008). 3 . Community Alternatives had argued in Byrd I that Ms. Quarles and Ms. Byrd could "show neither the clear mandate of public policy nor a close fit between any such policy and the conduct involved in the alleged wrongful termination,” but this court determined that "we need not, and do not resolve these questions.” Id. at 934. 4 . Although the tort originally applied to at-will employees, this court held in Byrd I that it also applied to contract employees like Ms. Quarles and Ms. Byrd. 962 A.2d at 931-34; see also infra note 6. 5 . See, e.g., Fingerhut, 738 A.2d at 803-07 (<HOLDING>); Washington v. Guest Servs., Inc., 718 A.2d
holding that plaintiff had sufficiently pled requisite public policy and a close fit where he alleged that his company had fired him after he filed a statutorily authorized lawsuit meant to protect employees against employers who illegally deducted money from their paychecks holding that because the contract between the hospital and the health insurance company had a hold harmless provision which stated the hospital would not bill or hold insurance subscribers liable for any hospital expenses covered by the subscribers insurance contract and all expenses from the patients treatment for the automobile accident were covered in such contract there was no debt upon which the hospital could assert a lien pursuant to the states hospital lien statute holding that plaintiff director of security for a hospital had sufficiently pled requisite public policy and a close fit where he asserted that a hospital fired him for reporting to law enforcement that a hospital administrator bribed a public official holding that a nonprofit hospital may not be a local public entity entitled to utilize the act and its oneyear limitations period if the hospital was not found to have conducted public business holding that where hospital used balance billing that since the hospital had already received payments from the patient and his health insurer and had agreed to accept that amount as payment in full for its services there was no longer any amount owing to the hospital and thus it could not assert a statutory hospital lien for the difference between its charges and the amount received in light of the negotiated network agreements