Paddock v. Dennies

PLOTKIN, Judge.

In the most recent case to address this issue, Comeaux v. Poindexter, 527 So.2d 1184 (La.App.3d Cir.1988), the court held that a husband’s loss of consortium claim related back to the filing of the original petition under the exact factual circumstances as those in the instant case. Like Mr. Dennies, Mr. Comeaux filed an original petition on behalf of himself and his wife and daughter injured in an automobile accident within the one-year prescriptive period, then filed an amended and supplemental petition claiming loss of consortium three years after the accident. In the…