PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Pleading
......Complaints in Intervention
.........Purpose & Effect
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  • Intervention protects others affected by judgment and obviates delay and multiplicity.
  • When insurance company seeks to provide defense in pending litigation for corporation suspended for nonpayment of taxes, insurance company must intervene to protect its own and insured's interests.
  • Statutory limitations on intervention allow original parties to conduct lawsuit on their own terms as much as possible.
  • Application to substitute non-party as proper D may be made by either party as alternative to intervention; only non-party seeking to join may apply to intervene.
  • No relation back for SOL purposes where new cause of action asserted in complaint in intervention.
  • Intervenor becomes independent party to action.
  • Intervention permitted after trial if intervenor asserts right to intervene within reasonable time and not guilty of unreasonable delay after knowledge of suit.