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Contesting or Enforcing a MN No-Fault Arbitration Award | Injury Attorney
The following is an excerpt from materials provided in conjunction with a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar presentation given by personal injury attorney Denise Fullerton of Fullerton Law, P.A.. Denise has lectured numerous times at CLEs, and has been invited to repeat her presentations multiple times.
Rule 38 – Confirmation, Vacation, Modification or Correction of Award
The provision of Minn. Stat. §572.10 through §572.26 shall apply to the confirmation, vacation, modification or correction of award issued hereunder, except that service of process pursuant to Minn. Stat. §572.23 shall be made as provided in Rule 29 of these rules.
MN No-Fault Rules, September 7, 1999
Each party waives the requirements of Minn. Stat. §572.23 and shall be deemed to have agreed that any papers, notices or process necessary or proper…may be served on a party by mail or facsimile addressed to the party or its representative at the last known address or by personal service…provided that reasonable opportunity to be heard with regard thereto has been granted to the party….
MN No-Fault Rules, September 7, 1999.
Minn. Stat. §572B.20 – Change of award by arbitrator
Minn. Stat. §572B.24 – Modification or correction of award
(a) Upon motion filed…within 90 days after the movant receives notice of an arbitrator’s award in a record on a motion to modify or correct an award pursuant to section 572B.20, the court shall modify or correct the award if:
(1) there was an evident mathematical miscalculation…;
(2) the arbitrator has made an award on a claim not submitted to the arbitrator…; or
(3) the award is imperfect in a matter of form not affecting the merits of the decision on the claims submitted..
Minn. Stat. §572B.23 – Vacating award.
(3) an arbitrator refused to postpone the hearing upon showing of sufficient cause for postponement, refused to consider evidence material to the controversy, or otherwise conducted the hearing contrary to section 572B.15, so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding; [or]
(4) an arbitrator exceeded the arbitrator’s powers;…
(b) A motion under this section must be filed within 90 days after the movant receives notice of the award in a record pursuant to section 572B.19 or within 90 days after the movant receives notice of an arbitrator’s award in a record on a motion to modify or correct an award pursuant to section 572B.20, unless the motion is predicated upon the ground that the award was procured by corruption, fraud, or other undue means, in which case it must be filed within 90 days after such a ground is known or by the exercise of reasonable care should have been known by the movant….
Minn. Stat. §572B.22 – Confirmation of award.
Minn. Stat. §572B.25 – Judgment on award; Attorney fees on Litigation Expenses.
(a) Upon granting an order confirming, vacating without directing a rehearing, modifying, or correcting an award, the court shall enter a judgment in conformity therewith. The judgment may be recorded, docketed, and enforced as any other judgment in a civil.
(b) A court may allow reasonable costs of the motion and subsequent judicial proceedings;
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