Health Services Management Corp. v. Charles Hughes, D/B/A Charles Hughes & Associates

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• holding party waived right to object to arbitrators on basis of their prior relationship with another party
• holding that the objection to the arbitrator was waived
• stating that to vacate the award there must be more than mere error in law or failure of the arbitrator to understand or apply the law
• finding waiver when attorney learned of a prior relationship between a party and two arbitrators but waited two months to raise an objection
• finding waiver where a party learned of prior business relations between arbitrator and opposing party just prior to arbitration but did not object until the third day of a hearing
• finding relationship “minimal” and insufficient to vacate where arbitrator knew one of the parties, had worked in the same office with him twenty years ago, and saw him once a year since that time

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