Casco Indemnity Co. v. O'Connor

OPINION

LEDERBERG, Justice.

This case came before the Supreme Court on appeal from a declaratory judgment that an arbitrator’s determination of liability for an automobile accident would bind a second arbitrator considering a related uninsured motorist claim. The insured driver, Kevin O’Connor (O’Connor) argued that it was inappropriate for the first arbitrator’s decision to have a preclu-sive effect in the second arbitration because the insurance company that defended O’Connor in the first arbitration was the subject of the uninsured motorist claim in the second arbitration. Because we agree…