State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Mavroidakos

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County, entered August 24, 1976, which granted petitioner’s motion for a permanent stay of arbitration, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, and the stay denied and arbitration directed, with $40 costs and disbursements of this appeal to appellant. The respondent-appellant was a passenger in an automobile involved in a collision with a vehicle owned by the respondent Briggs Leasing Corp. and leased to respondent Berton. Appellant made a demand upon the petitioner insurance company which insured the vehicle in which she was…