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if the employer has gone tits up, why do you think you could collect a judgment from them if you did win?
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This.
Sueing is one thing; collecting is another. There are dozens of ways that "regular guys" like you and me can avoid payment of a small claims award; for example, my income is SS and retirement, both of which are protected against collections. I once worked with a scoundrel who kept ownership of his cars in his father's name; he had no other valuables, and changed jobs as soon as someone garnished his wages.
Now you seem to have a corporation or LLC which doesn't exist anymore; it likely has no assets anywhere. Good luck, it's as if a person who owed you money died penniless.
There IS a legal process called
"piercing the corporate veil." You will have to spend some money on an attorney to do this.
As I understand it: a corporation is legally a person, with many of the protections of a person. Under law, the corporation and the owners & operators are separate beings, and it takes a significant effort to prove that the corporation was set up in order to defraud other people, i.e. you or its customers. @Aimless is the person to ask this question.
But it'll likely cost more than it's worth, and possibly take longer than your natural life span to complete the case.