Allstate Insurance v. Blackwell

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

The issue presented on appeal is whether the court below erred in entering an order pursuant to an award of arbitrators in a case involving uninsured motorist coverage.

Our courts have held that in common law arbitration, the arbitrators are the final judges of both the facts and the law and that their decision will not be disturbed for a mistake of either. Harker v. Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance Co., 219 Pa. Superior Ct. 485, 281 A. 2d 741 (1971). In Harker, we re-emphasized the well-settled law in Pennsylvania *403that “common law arbitration may be…