Case Name: Allstate Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Blackwell
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1973-03-27
Citations: 223 Pa. Super. 401
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 1389
Parties: Allstate Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Blackwell.
Judges: Before Wright, P. J., Watkins, Jacobs, Hoffman, Spaulding, Cercone, and Packel, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 223
Pages: 401–403

Head Matter:
Allstate Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Blackwell.
Argued December 5, 1972.
Before Wright, P. J., Watkins, Jacobs, Hoffman, Spaulding, Cercone, and Packel, JJ.
A. Arthur Hanamiricm, with him McEldrew, Hanamirian, Quinn, Bradley & D’Amico, for appellant.
Bernard M. Gross, with him Gross & Sklar, for appellee.
March 27, 1973:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Hoffman, J.,
The issue presented on appeal is whether the court below erred in entering an order pursuant to an award of arbitrators in a case involving uninsured motorist coverage.
Our courts have held that in common law arbitration, the arbitrators are the final judges of both the facts and the law and that their decision will not be disturbed for a mistake of either. Harker v. Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Co., 219 Pa. Superior Ct. 485, 281 A. 2d 741 (1971). In Harker, we re-emphasized the well-settled law in Pennsylvania that "common law arbitration may be reviewed only for fraud, misconduct, corruption or other such irregularity which caused the arbitrator to render an unjust, inequitable and unconscionable award." at p. 487. See also, Great American Insurance Co. v. American Arbitration Association, 436 Pa. 370, 372, 260 A. 2d 769 (1970). As no "fraud, misconduct, corruption or other such irregularity" is alleged nor appears of record, we should not endeavor to substantiate the propriety of the arbitrators' conclusions of fact and law in the instant case.
Order affirmed.