Lancer Insurance v. Nechamkus

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to permanently stay arbitration of a claim for uninsured motorist benefits, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Martin, J.), dated January 2, 2003, which granted the petition.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

On April 2, 1999, a vehicle owned and operated by Arthur *600Nechamkus was involved in a multi-vehicle rear-end collision on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx. Mr. Nechamkus, two passengers in his vehicle, Sally Green and Dolores Shapiro, and the operators of the other vehicles, Hurbert Pullam and Yun Ming…