Mealey's (May 14, 2018, 2:09 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 11 affirmed a district court’s ruling that statutory and common-law third-party bad faith claims alleged against an auto insurer are barred by the statute of limitations because the claimant did not file suit against the insurer until more than three years after judgment had been issued in the underlying tort suit (Rocky Dietz v. GEICO General Insurance Co., No. 17-35011, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 12351)....