noun
- a legal procedure by which a third party is brought into a lawsuit by a defendant who claims that party is liable for all or part of the damages being sought by the plaintiff
Usage: legal
Examples
- The defendant filed for impleading to bring the insurance company into the case.
- Impleading allows a defendant to shift liability to another party.
- The court granted the motion for impleading the subcontractor.
- Through impleading, the manufacturer was added as a third party to the lawsuit.
- The attorney explained that impleading would help determine who was truly responsible for the damages.
- Impleading is commonly used in construction disputes involving multiple contractors.