Allstate Insurance v. Kopito

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to permanently stay arbitration, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Christ, J.), entered January 9, 1992, which denied the application and directed the parties to proceed to arbitration.

*560Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Nassau County, for a trial on the issue of whether there was any "physical contact” between the respondent insured’s vehicle and the alleged hit-and-run vehicle.

A review of the entire record reveals conflicting evidence…