Is this the poster for the Misery remake ? <| sep |> uc 190 statements isn ' t completely true . Agents employees in this case are not completely free from legal punishment and are still responsible for their own actions . In the case that an individual breaks the law , they can and certainly are held responsible . It ' s called piercing the corporate veil . The difference is that this is a civil tort . There is no law that specifically relates to such a tort , and instead judges and juries work primarily off of past precedents and interpretations of general laws regarding legal wages . In this case and most cases it works in the defendants ' favor . If you ' re an individual who feels wronged by a corporation or in this case , a group of individuals you want to sue the company , not the managers responsible . Walmart is worth and has billions of dollars that could be won in a civil case . Walmart ' s managers not necessarily the owners are obviously very wealthy , but they still don ' t have as much to offer as the corporation itself when it comes to lawsuits . The defendants have much more to gain by being able sue Walmart than the managers . This goes for pretty much every and any corporation . But Walmart ' s or any corporation ' s managers aren ' t off the hook for criminal offenses by any means .