American Independent Insurance v. Art of Healing Medicine, P.C.

In a proceeding pursuant to CFLR article 75 to permanently stay arbitration of claims for no-fault insurance benefits, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Strauss, J.), entered October 4, 2011, which granted the petition to permanently stay arbitration, and dismissed the appellants’ counterclaims.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof granting the petition to permanently stay arbitration, and substituting therefor a provision denying the petition; as so modified, the order is affirmed, with costs to the appellants.

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