Thomas v. Vertigo, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Oklahoma permits the court to disregard the corporate entity if used, (1) to defeat public convenience, (2) justify wrong, (3) to perpetrate fraud whether actual or implied, or (4) to defend crime.... If the legal entity is used to accomplish these purposes, the law may treat the corporation as an association of persons. The goal in piercing the corporate veil is to impute liability for the acts of the corporation to the responsible persons.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. King v. Modern Music Co. · 2002 OK CIV APP 68 - Pate v. Alian

2. “We therefore find the public policy underlying the exclusive remedy provision and expressed in the collection provision of the Act is frustrated if the corporate employer which has failed to ensure compensation as required by law is allowed to circumvent the clear legislative intent of the Act by both violating the Act and using the Act to avoid liability. In the present case, the corporate employer's failure to secure the payment of workers' compensation awards as required by statute stands as the predicate for enforcement of Thomas' workers' compensation judgment, and Thomas seeks not to avoid the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act. Rather, Thomas seeks to compel compliance with the Workers' Compensation Act by enforcement of her certified Workers' Compensation Court judgment against the president, sole shareholder, and director of a corporation now without assets. Under these circumstances, we find the corporate entity should be disregarded when the failure to do so enables the corporate fiction to be wielded to justify the breach of duty imposed by 85 O.S. § 11, to circumvent the collection provision of § 42, and to defeat the public policy underlying those provisions. Although an extraordinary remedy to be used sparingly, the equitable doctrine of disregarding the corporate entity surely applies to avoid such malfeasance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hatfield v. Thompson (In re Thompson)

3. “that every employer subject to the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act shall pay scheduled compensation for an employee's disability resulting from accidental employment-related injury without regard to fault,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hatfield v. Thompson (In re Thompson)