Artists & Craftsmen Builders, Ltd. v. Schapiro

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beverly S. Cohen, J.), entered March 11, 1996, which vacated an arbitration award dated December 15, 1995, in favor of the respondent-appellant in the principal sum of $75,000, unanimously reversed, on the law, with costs, and the arbitration award reinstated.

It is not disputed that the arbitrator made complete disclosure of his prior contact with Jacques Gerstenfeld, the witness petitioner Belfor belatedly sought to call, upon first mention of Gerstenfeld’s name, during petitioner’s questioning of another one of his witnesses well into the hearings on…