§ 9-9-55.Correction or interpretation of arbitration award; additional arbitration awards; extension of time for correction, interpretation, or additional award

Awards are not always perfect on the first try, and this section gives the tribunal a narrow, time-limited path to fix them without reopening the whole case. Within 30 days of receiving the award — or a different period the parties agreed to — a party can ask the tribunal to correct computational, clerical, or typographical errors, or errors of a similar minor nature. If the parties have agreed to allow it, a party can also ask for an interpretation of a specific point in the award. The tribunal has 30 days to act on a request it considers justified, and any interpretation it gives becomes part of the award itself.

The tribunal doesn’t need to wait for a party to flag an error, either — it can correct the same kinds of computational or clerical mistakes on its own initiative within 30 days of the award’s date.

A separate mechanism handles something more substantial than a typo: claims the tribunal left unaddressed altogether. A party can ask, within 30 days, for an additional award covering claims that were presented but left out of the original one. If the tribunal agrees the request is justified, it has 60 days to issue that additional award. The tribunal can extend, if necessary, its own deadlines for making a correction, interpretation, or additional award (though not the parties’ initial 30-day windows for asking for one), and any correction, interpretation, or additional award has to meet the same form requirements — writing, signatures, reasons, date, and place — that govern the original award.