A pair of shareholders have been rebuffed in their bid to dismiss claims seeking to pierce the corporate veil and hold them and companies they allegedly own liable for a multimillion-dollar settlement owed by a related, now-bankrupt company.

The judge’s decision to allow the plaintiff to go after companies owned by the shareholders marks an early application of the “enterprise theory” of veil piercing that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court established in July 2021.

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