Metropolitan Property & Liability v. Mendelsohn

—In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR 7511 to vacate the award of a master arbitrator, dated April 4, 1997, which vacated an award of an arbitrator dated January 20, 1997, the petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (DiNoto, J.), dated July 8, 1997, which dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, the petition is granted, the master arbitrator’s award dated April 4, 1997, is vacated, and the arbitrator’s award dated January 20, 1997, is reinstated.

The master arbitrator himself acknowledged that the origi*667nal award was…