§ 25-2610.Change of award by arbitrators.

Before an award ever reaches a courtroom for confirmation or challenge, the arbitrators who made it can fix certain problems themselves. On a party’s application, or on the court’s referral if an application is already pending under section 25-2612, 25-2613, or 25-2614, the arbitrators may modify or correct the award on the grounds set out in section 25-2614(a)(1) — an evident miscalculation of figures or an evident mistake in describing a person, thing, or property — and section 25-2614(a)(3) — an award imperfect in a matter of form. They may also modify or correct the award only to clarify it. Notably, the ground for correcting an award that decided a matter never submitted to the arbitrators, found in section 25-2614(a)(2), is not on this list; that correction runs through the court instead.

A party seeking this kind of arbitrator-level fix has twenty days after delivery of the award to apply. Written notice of the application goes to the opposing party right away, telling that party it has ten days from the notice to serve any objections. Whatever the arbitrators end up doing — modifying, correcting, or leaving the award as is — the resulting award remains subject to confirmation, vacatur, and modification under sections 25-2612 through 25-2614, just like the original.