American Protein Corporation v. Ab Volvo and Volvo Lastvagnar Ab, as Successors in Interest to Beijerinvest Ab, Beijer Industries, Inc. And Bo Lycke

How courts have described this case

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• noting that factors to consider include lack of normal corporate formality, under-capitalization, and personal use of subsidiary’s funds by the parent or owner
• noting that there is “a presumption of separateness between a corporation and its owners”
• the Court emphasized that had there been evidence of these factors, such evidence would have supported piercing the veil
• “[S]uch domination must have been used to ‘commit fraud or wrong’ against plaintiff, which proximately caused plaintiff’s injury”
• \the issue of corporate disregard is generally submitted to the jury\
• “the issue of corporate disregard is generally submitted to the jury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).