Shalatsky v. England

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., in which the parties stipulated to the submission of a certain issue to arbitration, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Ingrassia, J.), entered August 28, 1996, which denied their motion for a declaration that “the arbitration proceedings [are] a nullity and [to direct] arbitration de novo before a newly designated arbitrator”.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiffs’ motion was, in effect, an application to disqualify the arbitrator based on his having learned certain…