The applicants failed to attend a scheduled pre-hearing regarding their claims for statutory accident benefits.
Their counsel brought a motion to be removed from the record due to a breakdown in the solicitor-client relationship, which was granted.
The arbitrator dismissed the applications for arbitration as frivolous, vexatious, or commenced in bad faith due to the applicants' failure to participate, and ordered the applicants to pay $1,000 in expenses to the insurer.
