Paola v. Commercial Union Assurance Companies

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This is an appeal by Theodore W. Paola (Paola) from a judgment of the Superior Court denying his motion to add postjudgment interest to an arbitrator’s award. We have been asked for the first time to address the issue of whether a judgment creditor who unsuccessfully appeals the amount of an award is entitled to postjudgment interest for the period of the unsuccessful appeal. We affirm the judgment entered in Superior Court.

The parties to this action were previously before this court in 1983 when Paola appealed a Superior Court judgment confirming the same arbitrator’s…