When faced with an ambiguous arbitration award, a court should remand the matter back to the arbitrators who decided it for clarification, the Allegheny County Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. has held in an issue of first impression.
Remanding such a matter is in keeping with the view espoused by a majority of the other jurisdictions which have considered the issue, according to the opinion in Savinis v. Goldberg Persky & White, P.C., PICS Case No. 06-1078 (C.P. Allegheny July 28, 2006) Wettick, J. (11 pages). And it is the arbitrators who rendered the ambiguous award who are in the best position to make their intentions clear, Wettick, administrative judge the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court’s civil division, reasoned in following the majority view.
