Government Employees Insurance v. Sheehan

— In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to vacate a determination of a master arbitrator, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Lockman, J.), dated January 22, 1990, which denied its application.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Judicial review of a master arbitrator’s vacatur of an award pursuant to Insurance Law § 5106 derives from CPLR 7511 (b) (1) (iii). The question to be addressed by the court is whether the master arbitrator exceeded his power (Matter of Smith [Firemen’s Ins. Co.], 55 NY2d 224; Matter of Petrofsky [Allstate Ins.…