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Arbitrator’s Award Which Did Not Resolve the Controversy Properly Vacated

The Second Department held the arbitrator’s award was properly vacated because it was neither final nor definite and failed to determined damages.  The petitioner was injured while riding in respondent-county’s bus:

Although judicial review of arbitration awards is limited …, an award will be vacated when the arbitrator making the award “so imperfectly executed it that a final and definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made” (CPLR 7511[b][1][iii]…). An award will be vacated as indefinite or nonfinal for purposes of CPLR 7511 if it does not “dispose of a particular issue raised by the parties” …, or ” if it leaves the parties unable to determine their rights and obligations, if it does not resolve the controversy submitted or if it creates a new controversy'” … .

Here, the arbitrator’s award was neither definite nor final, as it failed to resolve the controversy submitted, to wit, the negligence of each party and the amount of damages, if any. The arbitrator did not make any specific findings of fact or credibility or dispose of the issues raised by the parties. Instead, the arbitrator pointed to a fact not in dispute—that the petitioner was not wearing a seatbelt—and determined that he did not need to decide whether the County was negligent. In doing so, the arbitrator failed to dispose of the controversy with which he had been charged … .

Moreover, the arbitrator also failed to determine damages and instead referred to the parties’ agreement, to which he was not privy, and awarded the petitioner “the low” sum of damages, despite finding that the petitioner was barred from recovering any damages … .  Matter of Andrews v County of Rockland, 2014 NY Slip Op 06078, 2nd Dept 9-10-14

 

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