Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America v. Mandell

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered on or about December 29, 2005, which, inter alia, granted plaintiffs motion to compel defendants to execute a hold harmless agreement in favor of the arbitrators in a pending arbitration, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Having ordered arbitration, the motion court properly directed execution of a hold harmless agreement as demanded *1130by the arbitration panel. To require the parties to expend additional time and effort constituting a new panel that would not insist on a hold harmless agreement would be to contravene…