(December 1, 2017, 11:24 AM EST) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal judge in New Mexico on Nov. 20 substantially denied an insurer’s motion to bifurcate trial on an insured’s noncontractual claims in an insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit, ruling that bifurcation of the contractual claims from the noncontractual claims will be granted at trial by the judge as needed, even though all claims will be tried “before the same jury” (Claudell Hodges v. GEICO Insurance, No. 17-0960, D. N.M., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 191479)....