Entity liability - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

In business law, entity liability is when a corporation is treated as an independent legal entity, and should be held liable for the liabilities incurred by the business.�

The concept of entity liability allows a�corporation�to be held liable for the criminal misdeeds of its agents if:

• The agent is acting within the actual or apparent scope of their employment or authority, and
• If the agents intend, at least in part, to some way benefit the corporation through their actions.

The corporation can still be held liable for their agents� criminal misdeeds or actions even if the agents� actions are contrary to corporate policy or directly disregard express orders of the corporation. This rule was established in�New York Central and Hudson River Railroad v. United States, 212 U.S. 481 (1909), where the court decided to extend the tort doctrine of�respondeat superior�to criminal cases, establishing a form of corporate criminal liability for actions of corporation�s agents.