Ruff v. Metropolitan Property & Liability Insurance

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This dispute concerns an arbitrator’s award made pursuant to an arbitration provision of the uninsured-motorist-insurance section of an automobile liability policy issued by the insurer. The disputants are before us on the claimant’s appeal from a Superior Court justice’s denial of the claimant’s petition to vacate the arbitrator’s award. In the appeal the claimant raises three issues, two of which deserve but brief comment. Hereafter we shall refer to the claimant, Bettina Tencer Ruff, by her first name.

Bettina faults the trial justice for his failure to vacate the…