Indiana

IC 23-18-3-3 Personal liability of members, managers, agents, or employees
(a) A member, a manager, an agent, or an employee of a limited liability company is not personally liable for the debts, obligations, or liabilities of the limited liability company, whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise, or for the acts or omissions of any other member, manager, agent, or employee of the limited liability company. A member, a manager, an agent, or an employee of a limited liability company may be personally liable for the person's own acts or omissions.

Apparently, North Carolina lawyers have attempted to use the traditional, veil-piercing factors from corporations law as a guide to piercing the liability protections of the LLC. I must agree with this paragraph:

Of course, such an approach misses the obvious: an LLC is not a corporation. They are different types of business entity altogether. Just because the courts can look past a corporation's liability protection under certain circumstances, it does not automatically follow that those exact same circumstances should cause an LLC member to lose liability protection.

Not knowing the facts of the North Carolina cases, I am left with some guesswork about the reason for using corporations law. Either it is a sign of how conservatively our lawyer's brains work or it is a sign of laziness or both. I would think the better analogy would be to limited partnerships. Whether such an argument gets one any further in piercing a LLC's liability protection is a question for another time but I doubt this argument would be any more successful.

I also suggest reading Piercing the LLC Veil in North Carolina - Part 3. In this part, the argument appears to be that creating a LLC for the purpose of defrauding creditors might lead to a piercing of the veil. I find this appealing as an equity style argument but I keep thinking the evidence had better be pretty and prepare for an appeal if successful.