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Matter of Crum Forster Commercial v. Yakar

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 24, 1994
208 A.D.2d 833 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

Opinion

October 24, 1994

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Kutner, J.).


Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

Where, as here, the party who is seeking arbitration is neither a party to nor a signatory of the contract of insurance, and thus not a party to an arbitration agreement, an application to stay arbitration may properly be made any time before the arbitration has commenced, without regard to the 20-day period contained in CPLR 7503 (c) (see, Matter of IMG Publ. [Viesti], 170 A.D.2d 268). Once the arbitration commences and the party to be charged participates therein, that party may only seek to vacate the arbitration award on the grounds set forth in CPLR 7511 (b) (1), which do not include the nonexistence of an agreement to arbitrate, the ground which has been asserted by the insurer in this case. Thus the Supreme Court properly denied the insurer's motion to vacate the arbitration award. Mangano, P.J., Lawrence, Copertino, Krausman and Goldstein, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Matter of Crum Forster Commercial v. Yakar

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 24, 1994
208 A.D.2d 833 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
Case details for

Matter of Crum Forster Commercial v. Yakar

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of CRUM FORSTER COMMERCIAL INSURANCE, Appellant, v. MICHAEL…

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

Date published: Oct 24, 1994

Citations

208 A.D.2d 833 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
618 N.Y.S.2d 395

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