In Matter of New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Assn. v. State of New York (94 N.Y.2d 321 [1999]), the court refused to disturb an award, cognizant of the fact that "a court cannot examine the merits of an arbitration award and substitute its judgment for that of the arbitrator simply because it believes its interpretation would be the better one. Indeed, even in circumstances where an arbitrator makes errors of law or fact, courts will not assume the role of overseers to conform the award to their sense of justice" (id. at 326.)