The following excerpt is from Country-Wide Ins. Co. v. Lockwood Med. P.C., 2021 NY Slip Op 30158 (U) (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2021):
Dept 2019). Further, the power of the master arbitrator to review factual and procedural issues is limited to "whether the arbitrator acted in a manner that was arbitrary and capricious, irrational or without a plausible basis." Petrofsky v. Allstate Ins. Co., 54 NY2d 207, 212 (1981).
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