In re the Arbitration between Allstate Insurance & Ramos

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered on or about July 31, 1995, which granted *42petitioner’s application to stay arbitration of respondent’s uninsured motorist claim and vacated any award that may have been rendered in petitioner’s absence from the arbitration and which denied respondent’s cross motion for change of venue to Kings County, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny a stay of arbitration and to reinstate the award, and otherwise affirmed, with costs to respondent-appéllant.

Consistent with New York public policy to protect innocent victims of traffic…