Dorsey v. Nationwide Insurance

WIEAND, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order refusing to vacate an arbitration award which determined that the appellant, Forrest Dorsey, was not entitled to recover uninsured motorist benefits from his automobile insurance carrier. We affirm. However, a separate court order which imposed personal *256liability upon appellant’s counsel for payment of the fee of the neutral arbitrator must be reversed.

Forrest Dorsey was injured on September 2, 1980 when the automobile which he was driving was hit in the rear by another motorist near the intersection of Second and Race Streets in Philadelphia.…