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Liability Risk and Insurance

Personal liability for a company’s tortious acts

Courts are changing from the traditional view that a director would only be held liable as a joint tortfeasor with the company if it can be shown that he committed the tort, participated in it, or procured the act done by others or that he and the company joined together in a concerted act leading to the tort.

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