Rand v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.

This case concerns a petition filed in superior court by the plaintiff, Dawny J. Rand, to modify an arbitrator’s award which denied her claim for uninsured motorist benefits from the defendant, Aetna Life & Casualty Company (Aetna). Her petition was dismissed when the Trial Court (Nadeau, J.) granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The court stated that it could not determine from the arbitrator’s one-sentence ruling whether the decision was based on “plain mistake” within the meaning of RSA 542:8, since there was no record of the arbitration hearing. On appeal, the plaintiff…