Mealey's (January 28, 2019, 12:38 PM EST) -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge in Missouri on Jan. 23 ruled that an insurer failed to sufficiently show that an insured acted in bad faith by failing to file a cross-claim against the insurer for bad faith failure to settle an underlying garnishment action within one year of the action being filed and, thus, failed to show that removal of the underlying action from state court was statutorily proper (Philip Stratman v. Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Co., No. 18-540, W.D. Mo., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10673)....