I am with a plaintiffs' personal injury firm. When a client comes in the
office, explaining that they were hurt by the negligence of Corporation X,
it is sometimes easy to figure how which corporation to sue. However,
sometimes what the client describes as "Corporation X" is in fact a large
number of corporations, linked together by part of the name and by partial
ownership interests.
To determine which corporation is the one to be sued, we have used D&B
accessed through Westlaw. This allows us to print out a detailed corporate
family tree, which is very helpful. However, the cost is enormous. Each
corporation which is part of the family trees costs $8.00 to retrieve. Since
there can be hundreds of corporations within a family tree, the bill for one
search can easily top $2,000.
Is there a way--either on-line or in hard copy--to obtain this
information more cheaply. We need to conduct these searches only a
few time a year, but it seems a waste to spend this much money.
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