National Grange Mutual Insurance v. Hing Wa Louie

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Emily Jane Goodman, J.), entered March 14, 2006, which granted a temporary stay of arbitration pending a referee’s hearing and report on the insurance status of the alleged offending vehicle in the accident, and denied petitioner additional discovery, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The automobile driven by respondent, a Connecticut resident whose insurance policy was issued by petitioner in that state, was involved in an accident in the Bronx with an apparently uninsured vehicle registered to, owned and operated by a New Jersey resident. Since the…