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Articles From Jeffrey A. Schulkin

“Relating Back” Additional Allegations Against a Defendant for the Conduct of a Previously Unnamed Employee/Agent After the Statue of Limitations Has Expired By Jeffrey A. Schulkin & Madison Lewandowski Tort Law, December 2024 Under certain circumstances, additional allegations may be added against a defendant after the statute of limitations has expired for the conduct of a previously unnamed employee/agent. The Illinois “relation-back” statute, 735 ILCS 5/2-616(b) (2002), allows additional allegations against a defendant for one of its previously unnamed agents/employees filed after the statute of limitations has expired, if the allegations arise out of the same, or substantially similar occurrence as stated in the timely filed pleading. 
Evidence of the Inability to have Children in a Wrongful Death Claim Involving the Loss of a Child By Jeffrey A. Schulkin & Haadee M. Siddiqui Tort Law, January 2023 Given the 2007 amendment to the Wrongful Death Act, evidence that parents are unable to have any children should be relevant and admissible as evidence in support of their grief, sorrow, and mental anguish when they are pursuing a claim for the loss of a child.

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