Hempstead General Hospital v. National Grange Mutual Insurance

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75, inter alia, to vacate a master arbitration award dated May 19, 1988, and to confirm an expedited arbitration award dated February 8, 1988, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (O’Shaughnessy, J.), dated August 31, 1988, which dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the order is reversed, with costs, the application is granted, the master arbitration award is vacated, and the expedited arbitration award is confirmed.

Judicial review of a master arbitrator’s vacatur of an award pursuant to Insurance Law § 5106 derives…