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I quite agree, gg.
One would naturally expect the managers of companies to be taken for account when they are naughty blighters. Fined = to be paid out *of their* personal coffers; or, exceptionally, be jailed.
Illogically, the firms are often fined. When a utility, it would seem that this fine payment --fine, indeed!-- is retrieved by spreading the exceptional spending across customers' bills.
Managers are typically given praise and financial gain reflecting their companies' success, but disappear behind their desks and allow the burdens of financial losses due to their mismanagement to be carried by their companies.
(By way of example, a sewage-treatment firm that daily spewed 'rain-excess' into a nearby river. Eventually the firm was fined, the managers not even sacked.)
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