(December 14, 2017, 5:17 PM EST) -- ALBANY, Ga. — A Georgia federal judge on Dec. 5 denied an insured’s motion to compel the production of an insurer’s claims file, determining that bifurcation of the insured’s breach of contract claim from the insured’s bad faith claim is appropriate as bifurcation protects the insurer’s rights under the work-product doctrine for the breach of contract claim and acknowledges that the insured may need access to the requested claims file to prove its bad faith claim (Central Baptist Church of Albany Georgia Inc. v. Church Mutual Insurance Co., No. 16-231, M.D. Ga., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 199782)....