Panel Authorized to Amend Interim Award, Judge Rules

PHILADELPHIA - An arbitration panel did not exceed its authority in amending an interim award to state that a party is entitled to more than $5 million in attorney’s fees incurred in the arbitration, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.

On Oct. 22, Judge Petrese B. Tucker of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the panel was not barred from amending the interim award by the doctrine of functus officio because no final decision had been made on the issue of attorney’s fees in its award.

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