This chapter emphasizes that individual managers and supervisors, having taken some type of employment action, are frequently joined along with the company in lawsuits brought by employees. Certain statutes allow this. It is sometimes done also as a matter of trial strategy by the employee's attorney (the concept being to try to make the company and manager antagonistic toward each other). It may be done because the company is of questionable solvency; or it may be done to defeat the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Regardless of the reasons, managers and their companies need to be aware of this and review their insurance coverage or indemnity contracts to protect against this to the maximum extent possible.