Professional Liability Blog
August 8, 2017
Piercing the Corporate Veil in Illinois: For the First Time, the Jury Can Decide
Companies, professional corporations, and insurance carriers doing business in Illinois need to know about a trailblazing new case likely to impact their defense against veil-piercing claims. Traditionally, the question of whether a corporate veil can be pierced to reach the shareholders or owners behind a corporate entity has been for the trial court to determine. But in Benzakry v. Patel, 2017 WL 1251645 (Ill. App. Apr. 5, 2017), tradition didn’t hold: now veil-piercing claims can be decided by a jury instead of the trial court.