Employment is part contract law - an employment contract - but also part master servant law - passed down from the old times, pre democracy. 13th Amendment outlawed indentured servitude after the civil war. Employees are not slaves. They can quit at any time. So you can't sue the employees - so sue the other hospital? It's creative, if nothing else. It may also buy some time by gumming up the process. Is there merit to tortiuos interference? Interference in a contractual relationship by a third party. Employment is only partly a contractual relationship. Yeah, perhaps there is a case here. Enough to force a hearing. Technically, is it tortious interference if there is no breach of contract? The contract ends "unexpectedly," but not illegally, when the employees quit. Is why they quit even relevant if there is no breach of contract? Quitting at any time, for any reason, is an implied, by law, part of the contract. Technically, the contract is fulfilled, or completed, at the time of quitting. So how has it been interfered with? A trigger of an unexpected completion of a contract... via a third party job offer. It's a hell of a stretch for interference. Anything can happen in a court room.