Paddock v. Dennies’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The defendants argue that the amended and supplemental petition cannot properly be considered to relate back to the filing of the original petition because loss of consortium is a different cause of action than the personal injury and property damage claims set out in the original petition. Assuming arguendo that this is true, that fact does not dictate that the amended and supplemental petition be barred by prescription. The Louisiana Supreme Court has held that La.C. C.P. art. 1153 does not bar an amendment stating a new cause of action if, as here, the original pleading gave fair notice of the general fact situation from which the amended claim arose. Gunter v. Plauche, 439 So.2d 437 (La.1983). This circuit has also allowed an amendment to relate back and defeat prescription, even when the causes of action are different, when the parties and the relief prayed for were the same. See Warner v. Russo, 376 So.2d 571 (La.App. 4th Cir.1979), writ denied 380 So.2d 71 (La. 1980). Id. 532 So.2d at 856 .”

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