General Accident, Fire & Life Insurance v. Viruet

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered on or about December 18, 1989, which, inter alia, denied petitioner’s application for a stay of arbitration and granted respondent Viruet’s cross motion to compel arbitration, unanimously affirmed without costs.

At issue in this case is respondent’s entitlement to first-party benefits under the "no-fault” policy held by petitioner’s insured to compensate him for injuries suffered as a result of an accident which occurred in the early morning hours of December 13, 1984. The evidence on the record shows that respondent had…