Legal Opinion
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center v. Signature Medical Management Group, L.L.C.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 20, 2004PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Dianne T. Renwick, J.), entered August 8, 2002, which denied defendant’s motion to disqualify an arbitrator in a pending arbitration proceeding on grounds of bias or appearance of bias, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
While “in an appropriate case, the courts have inherent power to disqualify an arbitrator before an award has been rendered” (see Matter of Astoria Med. Group [Health Ins. Plan of Greater N.Y.], 11 NY2d 128, 132 [1962] [citations omitted]), that extraordinary relief should only be employed where “there exists a real probability that…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- In Re Arbitration Between Astoria Medical Group & Health Insurance PlanNew York Court of Appeals · 1962
- In Re the Arbitration Between Lipschutz & GutwirthNew York Court of Appeals · 1952
- Rabinowitz v. OlewskiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
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