Lachonne Bell v. Allstate Life Insurance Company Sears Roebuck & Company

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• holding that “when late tendered amendments involve new theories of recovery and impose additional discovery requirements, courts are less likely to find an abuse of discretion [for denying a motion to amend] due to the prejudice involved.”
• stating that district court has discretion to require moving party to compensate opposing party for expenses incurred as result of allowing amendment
• stating that delay alone is insufficient justification and that prejudice to the nonmovant must also be shown
• noting that “[a]ny prejudice to the nonmovant must be weighed against the prejudice to the moving party by not allowing amendment”
• stating that district court has discretion -5- to require moving party to compensate opposing party for expenses incurred as result of allowing amendment
• holding risk of prejudice resulting from late pleading amendments which imposed additional discovery requirements justified denial of motion to amend

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