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Atelier Constantin Popescu, LLC v. JC Corp., 134 Conn. App. 731 (2012)

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Atelier Constantin Popescu, LLC v. JC Corp., 134 Conn. App. 731 (2012)
Parent Document
Atelier Constantin Popescu, LLC v. JC Corp., 134 Conn. App. 731 (2012)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
2012-04-17

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Although our conclusion under the instrumentality rule is sufficient to conclude that the court properly pierced JC Corporation’s corporate veil, we will consider the defendants’ claim that the court improperly applied the identity rule. The defendants assert that the court based its decision solely on its factual finding that there was a common officer between JC Corporation and Tea House. We disagree. The court made a number of additional findings relevant to an inquiry under the identity rule, including that JC Corporation *764accepted insurance proceeds for the destruction of improvements that supposedly were owned by Tea House. The court found that JC Corporation and Tea House were so intermingled that they were indistinguishable, that both corporations were completely dominated by Julie Chen and Hsiao-Wen Chen and that allowing Julie Chen and Hsiao-Wen Chen to avoid liability to the plaintiff because they acted through these purported corporations would be unjust. The court explicitly relied on all of these findings in its decision, and its finding that they supported piercing the corporate veil is not clearly erroneous. B Tea House