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Enterprise liability is a legal doctrine under which individual entities (for example, otherwise legally unrelated corporations or people) can be held jointly liable for some action on the basis of being part of a shared enterprise. Enterprise liability is a form of secondary liability. ==United States== Suppose high-risk manufacturing activities are shunted into one corporation, while a second "marketing" corporation keeps all the profits. In the case that someone was injured by the manufacturing activity, a court might apply the enterprise liability doctrine to allow recovery from the marketing corporation, which holds all the assets. The doctrine emerged from litigation in the wake of the 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire.〔Alexander, Roberta Sue (2005). ''A place of recourse: a history of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 1803-2003.'' Ohio University Press, ISBN 978-0-8214-1602-0〕〔''In Re: Beverly Hills Fire Litigation'', 695 F.2d 207 (6th Cir. 1982), cert, denied 461 US 929 (1983)〕〔''In Re: Beverly Hills Fire Litigation'', 672 S.W.2d 922 (Ky.1984)〕 The doctrine is examined in ''Walkovsky v. Carlton'', 223 N.E.2d 6 (N.Y. 1966). Enterprise Liability has been used as alternative terminology for Industry-Wide Liability.〔Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories, 607 P.2d 924 (Cal. 1980)〕 ''Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories'', 607 P.2d 924 (Cal. 1980) cites ''Hall v. E.I Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Inc.'', 345 F.Supp. 353 (E.D.N.Y. 1972) to explain Industry-Wide Liability, which was equated to Enterprise Liability: The concept of Enterprise Liability is distinguished from Market share liability, a legal doctrine introduced in ''Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Enterprise liability」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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