Can I sue individuals from a corporation instead of the company?
Jan Meriss Alfonso Assistant at Ascent Law LLC What some call the "corporate veil", others call a joke. Any good lawyer knows that people and companies are two different things, and you can only sue the latter. The fact that many companies are owned by other companies is irrelevant. The fact that employees do the actual work is irrelevant. The fact that there's a single person who makes all the decisions is irrelevant. If you want to sue an individual from a corporation, you must sue the company itself. If you want to sue a company, you can choose to sue one of its specific divisions or departments (for example, suing Walmart's real estate department if you're trying to recover money from them), but it's not possible to pick out a random individual from inside Walmart as your target for litigation. What is a Corporate Veil? The term "corporate veil" refers to the legal separation of a parent company from its subsidiaries. It's an intermediate...