Kighwaunda M. YARDLEY v. HOSPITAL HOUSEKEEPING SYSTEMS, LLC

OPINION

in which Cornelia A. Clark, Gary R. Wade, Jeffrey S. Bivins, and Holly Kirby, JJ., joined.

We accepted a question of law certified by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to determine whether a job applicant has a cause of action under the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Act against a prospective employer for failure to hire if the prospective employer failed to hire the' job applicant because that applicant had filed, or is likely to file; a workers’ compensation claim against a previous employer, and if such a cause of action exists, what standard…