Case Name: In the Matter of the Arbitration between Robert Brown et al., Appellants, and State Farm Insurance Company, Respondent. In the Matter of the Arbitration between State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Respondent, and Robert Brown et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-06-10
Citations: 251 A.D.2d 1059
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Arbitration between Robert Brown et al., Appellants, and State Farm Insurance Company, Respondent. In the Matter of the Arbitration between State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Respondent, and Robert Brown et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 251
Pages: 1059–1060

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Arbitration between Robert Brown et al., Appellants, and State Farm Insurance Company, Respondent. In the Matter of the Arbitration between State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Respondent, and Robert Brown et al., Appellants.
[673 NYS2d 346]

Opinion:
—Order and judgment unanimously reversed on the law with costs, petition denied, motion granted and award confirmed. Memorandum: Supreme Court erred in modifying the arbitration award (see, CPLR 7511 [c]; Matter of Ververs & Schueller Co. [Emory Mach. & Tool Co.], 190 AD2d 1079). Whatever the merits of the contention of State Farm Insurance Company and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (collectively, State Farm) that the arbitrator's award should be reduced by the total amount of the workers' compensation benefits that Robert Brown received, State Farm would not thereby be entitled to vacatur or modification of the award pursuant to CPLR 7511 (b) or (c) (see, Matter of Commerce & Indus. Ins. Co. v Nester, 90 NY2d 255, 265). (Appeal from Order and Judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County, Glownia, J.— Arbitration.) Present — Green, J. P., Lawton, Wisner, Callahan and Boehm, JJ.