(July 29, 2024, 8:44 AM EDT) -- DENVER — A federal magistrate judge in Colorado denied a defendant insurer’s motion to bifurcate the plaintiff insurer’s bad faith claim from a breach of contract claim in its lawsuit seeking recovery of the defense and settlement costs that it paid on behalf of its general contractor insured in an underlying construction defects lawsuit, finding that the issues of bad faith and the defendant insurer’s duty to defend “are inseparable.”...