Harty v. Cantor Fitzgerald and Co.

Opinion

KATZ, J.

The defendant, Cantor Fitzgerald and Company, appeals from the judgment of the trial court denying the defendant’s application to vacate in part an arbitration award rendered in favor of the defendant’s former employee, the plaintiff, Emmett J. Harty, and granting the plaintiffs application to confirm the award. The trial court concluded that the arbitration panel had not manifestly disregarded the law in awarding to the plaintiff compensatory damages for the defendant’s failure to pay the plaintiff a 1999 annual bonus and, pursuant to the wage collection statute, General…