Allstate Insurance Co. v. Wong

DURRANT, Justice:

¶ 1 In this case, we must determine whether the court of appeals properly modified an arbitration award to reflect the policy limits of an insurance contract that was not provided to the arbitrator. The court of appeals initially determined that the arbitrator based his award on a matter not submitted to arbitration, but went on to conclude that the arbitrator’s resolution of the matter actually submitted to arbitration could be salvaged by modifying the award. As a result, the court of appeals modified the award to reflect the insurance policy’s liability limit. We granted…