US Court of Appeals increases insurers’ subrogation rights

IN A RECENT decision of first impression, reports Christopher B Kende, an attorney at Cozen O’Connor, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that subrogated insurers which made compensation payments following the bombing of flight UTA 772, "stood in the shoes" of the victims and therefore could pursue litigation against Libya, which is claimed to be responsible for the terrorist attack under the 1996 exceptions to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).