Bank of Rhode Island v. Progressive Casualty Insurance

ORDER

JOHN J. McCONNELL, JR., District Judge.

Defendant Progressive Casualty Insurance Company has moved under Rule 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to severe certain claims and to stay discovery. (ECF No. 11.) Progressive asks this Court to severe the Plaintiff Bank Rhode Island’s (“BankRI”) claims for coverage from its claims for bad faith. BankRI objects (ECF No. 16) and asks this Court to bifurcate the two sets of claims for trial, but not to severe them and not to stay discovery.

This Court agrees with BankRI and will bifurcate the trial so that the coverage claims will be…