In re the Arbitration between Beagle & Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corp.

The Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation (here entitled the respondent) moves for a permanent stay of arbitration.

The petitioner, a United States airman, was injured by a hit- and-run driver while walking along a road on G-riffis Air Base, a United States Air Force installation near Rome, New York. The petitioner’s civilian residence is in New York and he is insured under a policy bearing the standard MVAIC indorsement. The motion to stay arbitration raises a primary question— does the fact that the accident happened on the air base deprive the petitioner of the remedy,…