Pasco Bucci and Marie Bucci, as the Administrator of the Estate of Anna Bucci v. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island denied Plaintiffs' motion for reconsideration of an order severing and staying their bad-faith insurance claims and related discovery pending resolution of their breach-of-contract claims. The Court concluded that Plaintiffs had not provided sufficient factual information to assess the overlap between contract and bad-faith discovery or otherwise established a basis for reconsideration under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1).

Holdings

1. Reconsideration was denied because Plaintiffs did not provide sufficient factual information to allow the Court to assess the overlap between the breach-of-contract and bad-faith claims or determine whether bad-faith discovery should be permitted.

Questions Presented

1. Whether Plaintiffs established grounds under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1) to reconsider the order severing and staying their bad-faith claims and related discovery.
2. Whether the asserted factual overlap, judicial-economy concerns, advanced age of a plaintiff, and Rhode Island's bad-faith statute warranted lifting or reconsidering the severance and stay.

Disposition

writ_denied