Mealey's (November 5, 2021, 11:51 AM EDT) -- GREENVILLE, Miss. — A federal magistrate judge in Mississippi on Nov. 2 denied an automobile insurer’s motion to amend its answer to state an affirmative defense for fraud in an insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit stemming from an alleged hit-and-run accident, ruling that the insurer has failed to sufficiently plead any facts supporting its allegation that the insured acted fraudulently in filing his claim....