In re the Arbitration between Allstate Insurance & Gonzalez

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Kenneth Shorter, J.), entered on or about July 5, 1989, which granted petitioner’s application for a temporary stay of arbitration pending a preliminary hearing on the issue of whether the alleged offending vehicle was insured, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, the application denied and the proceeding dismissed, with costs.

On June 23, 1984 respondent Branne Gonzalez was allegedly injured in an automobile accident with a vehicle owned by E-R Sheet Metal Works (E-R) and operated by Eujurio Rosposo. Respondent Gonzalez asserts that the E-R…