Johnny Dollar's employers

Granted that Johnny Dollar was a fictitious character, but assuming his stories had really happened, it raises some interesting questions. When he was on a case, he was a contractor for that company and therefore representing that firm and acting for it, just as if he were an employee. Usually this appeared to be on no more basis than a verbal "go to it" authorization. Dollar would skirt the limits of the law on things like misrepresentation and unlawful entry - all on company time. But even if his methods had all been within the law, in virtually every episode there were bullets and fists flying everywhere. In other words, every case exposed his employer to all manner of liability. Every time he threw a punch or pulled the trigger he was acting as a representative of the company. Knowing how conscious insurance companies are about fine print and the finer points of law, it is funny they would have taken they course they were portrayed as taking in these programs.