In re the Arbitration between Rosenblum & Government Employees Insurance

50 A.D.2d 607, 375 N.Y.S.2d 387, 1975 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12395

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: November 24, 1975
• Status: Published

Opinion

— In a proceeding to stay arbitration, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, dated May 2, 1975, which granted the application. Order reversed, on the law, with $50 costs and disbursements, and petition dismissed on the merits. The use of the word "claimant” in subdivision 2 of section 675 of the Insurance Law, as well as the wording employed in the approved form arbitration clause to be incorporated in minimum "no-fault” insurance coverage (see 11 NYCRR 65.2) evidences the Legislature’s intent to permit assignees of medical claims against insurance carriers pursuant to the "no-fault” scheme to avail themselves of the right the assignors might have to binding arbitration on disputed claims. Nothing in the wording of the statute or in the public policy of the State would appear to preclude such a statutory construction. Rabin, Acting P. J., Martuscello, Latham, Margett and Shapiro, JJ., concur.