(February 23, 2018, 9:26 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 9 affirmed a district court’s ruling that a third-party defendant failed to properly plead her negligence claim against an insurer and did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion for leave to amend her complaint to add a claim for bad faith (Jenny Berry v. Banner Life Insurance Co., No. 16-51198, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 3163)....