Stonington Management Corp. v. Furtsch

Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered February 27, 2002, which, to the extent appealed from, denied the petition to modify or vacate the arbitration award, and confirmed the award, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Appeal from order, same court and Justice, entered October 15, 2001, unanimously dismissed as academic, without costs.

Vacatur of an arbitrator’s award is statutorily limited to occasions involving fraud, corruption or bias — factors not present here — or occasions when the arbitrator exceeded his or her power, or so imperfectly executed it that a…