Increasingly, arbitrators are the collateral victims of attacks by a party on the award and the arbitration itself … pending challenge may automatically stay the arbitration until it is resolved by a state court, preventing the tribunal from … proceeding with a partial award on liability to a final award on quantum for an indefinite period of time. Recently, state courts …

Today, binding arbitration procedures are employed in a wider variety of contracts than at any time in our nation …'s history, and arbitration has become a wide-ranging surrogate for court trial of civil disputes. As a result, arbitration is … subjected to unprecedented stresses and strains, and it is fair to say that arbitration has never been subject to wider …