Any lawyer who has sought to vacate an arbitration award knows it is a daunting task. Arbitration awards are rarely vacated, even when a party has been severely prejudiced by an arbitrator's errors. Despite clear statutory language requiring vacation of awards under various circumstances, case law has severely limited this authority, and judges tend to view confirmation of an award as the safe option.
A recently published case may provide an opening, however, for practitioners s...
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