Mealey's (October 5, 2017, 12:29 PM EDT) -- NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Bifurcation of a bad faith claim in an asbestos coverage dispute is appropriate for trial but not for discovery as the issue of coverage intertwines and overlaps with the issue of bad faith, a Virginia federal magistrate judge said Oct. 2 (Hopeman Brothers Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co., et al., No. 16-187, E.D. Va., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164434)....