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Levy v. N.Y. State Workers' Compensation Bd.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 5, 2002
292 A.D.2d 388 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)

Opinion

2001-00134

Argued January 17, 2002.

March 5, 2002.

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to vacate an arbitration award, the petitioner appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Mason, J.), dated November 3, 2000, as denied the petition and confirmed the award.

Herbert L. Levy, New York, N.Y. (Thomas Rafferty of counsel), appellant pro se.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General, New York, N.Y. (Mark Gimpel and Ann P. Zybert of counsel), for respondent.

Before: ANITA R. FLORIO, J.P., CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, HOWARD MILLER, SANDRA L. TOWNES, JJ.


ORDERED that the order and judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The arbitrator found that the behavior of the petitioner, an administrative law judge for the Workers' Compensation Board (hereinafter the WCB), toward an attorney at a WCB hearing, violated the WCB's policy and the Code of Judicial Conduct for Administrative Law Judges (see, Singletary v. Government Employees Ins. Co., 139 A.D.2d 723; Block v. St. Paul Fire Mar. Ins. Co., 137 A.D.2d 475; Dahan v. Luchs, 92 A.D.2d 537). The arbitrator's award is neither irrational, violative of a strong public policy, nor in excess of the arbitrator's authority so as to require vacatur (see, CPLR 7511; Matter of County of Orange v. Civil Serv. Employees' Assn., 266 A.D.2d 212; Matter of Howard v. Cigna Ins. Co., 193 A.D.2d 745, 746; Murphy v. Wack, 177 A.D.2d 382, 383).

Consideration of other instances of misconduct in the petitioner's employment record does not provide grounds for vacatur (see, Block v. St. Paul Fire Mar. Ins. Co., supra; Dahan v. Luchs, supra). Pursuant to the terms of the parties' collective bargaining agreement, the arbitrator properly considered the petitioner's entire record of employment in determining a penalty.

FLORIO, J.P., O'BRIEN, H. MILLER and TOWNES, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Levy v. N.Y. State Workers' Compensation Bd.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 5, 2002
292 A.D.2d 388 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)
Case details for

Levy v. N.Y. State Workers' Compensation Bd.

Case Details

Full title:IN THE MATTER OF HERBERT L. LEVY, appellant, v. NEW YORK STATE WORKERS…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Mar 5, 2002

Citations

292 A.D.2d 388 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002)
738 N.Y.S.2d 377

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