In Re the Arbitration Between New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Co. & Baker

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Orleans County (James P. Punch, A.J.), entered June 23, 2016. The order granted the petition for a permanent stay of arbitration.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Respondent was injured in a motor vehicle accident while riding as a passenger in a vehicle driven by Joseph M. Merkley, Jr. The Merkley vehicle was rear-ended by a motor vehicle driven by Kristi L. Bailey and was propelled into oncoming traffic, where it was struck by a vehicle driven by Anna F. Swartsfelder. Respondent,…