Arbitration Between Carlson v. Farmers Insurance Group of Companies—Farmers Insurance Exchange

VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Wayne Carlson, representing the Antoinette Carlson estate and the heirs of Evald and Antoinette Carlson (the Carlsons), appealed from a district court order confirming an arbitration award. We conclude that the Carlsons waived their objections to the arbitration award and that the arbitrator’s choice of law was not completely irrational, and we therefore affirm.

Evald and Antoinette were killed when their car was struck by a car driven by Raymond Gregerson, at a highway intersection in Clay County, Minnesota. Raymond drove through a stop sign at the intersection and…