BELL v. SEABURY

Docket No. 209692.

622 N.W.2d 347 (2000)

243 Mich. App. 413

Dennis L. BELL d/b/a Bell Enterprises, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James SEABURY, Prudential Insurance Company Of America, District Agencies Division, Gary Robinson, Individually and d/b/a Gary Robinson Insurance Agency, James Moore and Paul P. Caswell, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided December 1, 2000, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication January 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mantese Miller and Mantese P.L.L.C. (by E. Powell Miller), Troy, for the plaintiff.

Ronald D. Keefe, Marquette (Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal by Michael A. Schlanger and Daniel D. Barnowski, Washington, DC, of counsel), for the Prudential Insurance Company of America.

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz (by Leonard B. Schwartz), Southfield, for James Seabury.

Kerr, Russell & Weber (by William Sankbeil), Detroit, for Paul P. Caswell and Gary Robinson.

Before HOOD, P.J., and SAAD and O'CONNELL, JJ.


SAAD, J.

I. Nature of the Case

Defendants ask this Court to reverse the trial court's order that vacated National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., arbitral award under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).1 We reverse.

The trial court expressly held that plaintiff failed to prove the statutory grounds for vacating an arbitral award under the FAA, but the court nonetheless vacated the award, reasoning that the alleged...

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