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.