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The Buffalo Creek Disaster

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             The corporate veil protection was set up to protect people that owned stock in a corporation so that they could never be sued for damages caused by the company. If a person is inflicted by damage by a corporation, it can only go after the investment held by the corporation. The corporate veil protection showed that the stockholder and the company were separate entities. This concept helps society and hurts society. It can help the stockholder because he has no liability to damages by the company but it can hurt the person that inflicts damage by a corporation and the corporation cannot pay for the damages inflicted. If a person is inflicted by damage by a corporation, it can only go after the investment of the .
             Stern wanted his plaintiff's to recover from punitive and compensatory damages and Pittston was the only one who can be sued that would make his clients receive enough for these damages but he was just a stockholder of the company. Piercing the corporate veil means to persuade the jury to disregard the separateness between the Buffalo Mining Company and the stockholder, Pittston. Piercing the corporate veil is very rare but Stern needed to prove that Pittston was responsible for the disaster. In order to pierce the corporate veil Stern needs to show that the Buffalo Mining Company was a subsidiary of Pittston's Company, which means that Buffalo Mining Company worked in coordination with Pittston's Company. Stern wanted his plaintiff's to recover from punitive and compensatory damages, compensation for their loss of homes and their "psychic impairment". Stern then started the legal process of a civil suit to help his clients obtain for what they had lost for the disaster caused by Pittston. Pittston's defense was that it was "an act of God." .
             The first thing Stern did was he sent a summons to Pittston company stating that he was being sued for fifty-two million on the account of "flagrant disregard" for the lives of the people of Buffalo Creek.


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