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NAT. UNION FIRE INS. CO. v. RIGGS NAT. BANK

No. 93-SP-1278.

646 A.2d 966 (1994)

NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, PA., Petitioner, v. The RIGGS NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, D.C., Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 18, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward G. Gallagher, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Eva Petko Esber, with whom Nancy F. Preiss and Karen L. Peck, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for respondent.

Before STEADMAN, SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Before the court is a certified matter from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit relating to the applicability of the so-called "superior equities doctrine" in an action against a drawee bank by an insurance company as a conventional subrogee and assignee of its insured, a depositor in the bank. National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Riggs Nat'l Bank, 303 U.S.App. D.C. 302, 5 F.3d 554

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