In Re the Arbitration Between State Farm Insurance & Banyan

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Mulvey, J.), entered November 8, 2013 in Tompkins County, which, among other things, denied petitioner’s amended application pursuant to CPLR 7503 to permanently stay arbitration between the parties.

Respondents filed a demand for supplementary uninsured/ underinsured motorist arbitration based on the allegation that a vehicle operated by respondent Victor Banyan had been struck by an unidentified vehicle that left the scene of the accident. Petitioner contested respondents’ claim that the accident was caused by physical contact with the other vehicle…