Effective - 28 Aug 1986
356.171. Liability for negligent or wrongful acts or omissions. — 1. Every individual who renders a professional service as an employee of a professional corporation or a foreign professional corporation shall be liable for any negligent or wrongful act or omission in which he or she personally participates to the same extent as if he or she rendered such service in his or her individual capacity. An employee of a professional corporation or a foreign professional corporation shall not be liable for the conduct of other employees in which he or she did not personally participate, unless he or she was negligent in appointing, supervising, or participating in the activity in question with that employee.
2. Every professional corporation and foreign professional corporation whose employees perform professional services within the scope of their employment or of their apparent authority to act for the professional corporation or foreign professional corporation shall be liable to the same extent as its employees.
3. Except as otherwise provided by law, the personal liability of a shareholder of a professional corporation or foreign professional corporation in his or her capacity as such shall be no greater in any respect than that of a shareholder of a corporation organized under the general and business corporation law of Missouri, chapter 351.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 1230)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXIII - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships
Chapter 356 - Professional Corporations
Section 356.011 - Citation of law.
Section 356.021 - Definitions.
Section 356.031 - General and business corporation law applicable — exceptions.
Section 356.071 - Regulating name of corporation.
Section 356.081 - Corporation may render professional services, how.
Section 356.091 - Directors and officers, who may be.
Section 356.101 - Corporation may purchase own shares, when.
Section 356.111 - Shares, who may hold, transferred how.
Section 356.121 - Proxies and voting trusts, valid when.
Section 356.131 - Securities law not applicable, exception.
Section 356.141 - Disqualifying event, corporation may purchase its own shares, procedure.
Section 356.151 - Disqualifying event, effect.
Section 356.161 - Rights and obligations of unqualified persons acquiring shares by foreclosure.
Section 356.171 - Liability for negligent or wrongful acts or omissions.
Section 356.181 - Privileged communications.
Section 356.191 - Law not to be construed to restrict licensing authorities — additional rules.
Section 356.221 - Merger or consolidation with another corporation, when.
Section 356.233 - Additional fee — expiration date.
Section 356.251 - Forfeiture of corporate rights, when — duties of licensing authority.