Norwest Mortgage, Inc. v. Dime Savings Bank

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for negligence arising from the defendant Peter V. Ferrara’s conversion of assets in an escrow account with the defendant Dime Savings Bank of New York, the defendant Dime Savings Bank of New York appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Franco, J.), entered February 7, 2000, as denied that branch of its motion which was to dismiss the cause *654of action sounding in common-law negligence insofar as asserted against it.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, that branch of the…