Home Indemnity Co. v. Hoechst Celanese Corp.

EAGLES, Judge.

When evaluating the propriety of a trial court’s stay order the appropriate standard of review is abuse of discretion. Home Indem. *118Co. v. Hoechst-Celanese Corp., 99 N.C. App. 322, 325, 393 S.E.2d 118, 120 (1990), appeal dismissed and cert. denied, 327 N.C. 428, 396 S.E.2d 611 (1990). A trial court may be reversed for abuse of discretion only if the trial court made “a patently arbitrary decision, manifestly unsupported by reason.” Buford v. General Motors Corp., 339 N.C. 396, 406, 451 S.E.2d 293, 298 (1994). Rather, appellate review is limited to “insur[ing] that the decision…