Section 1307. Award. Docketing. Notice. Judgment. Molding the Award

(a) The prothonotary shall

(1) enter the award of record upon the proper docket,

(2) immediately send by ordinary mail a copy of the award, with notice of the date and time of its entry on the docket and the amount of arbitrators’ compensation to be paid upon appeal, to each party’s attorney of record, or to the party if the party has no attorney of record, and

(3) note in the docket the date of mailing the notice.

(b) Rescinded.

(c) If no appeal is taken within thirty days after the entry of the award on the docket, the prothonotary on praecipe shall enter judgment on the award.

Official Note

Rule 3021(a)(3) requires the prothonotary to immediately enter in the judgment index a judgment entered on praecipe of a party.

(d) Where the record and the award disclose an obvious and unambiguous error in the award mathematics or language, the court, on application of a party within the thirty-day period allowed for appeal, may mold the award to the same extent and with the same effect as the court may mold the verdict of a jury. The filing of such an application shall stay all proceedings including the running of the thirty-day period for appeal until disposition of the application by the court. Any party may file a notice of appeal within the thirty-day appeal period prescribed by Rule 1308(a) or within ten days after disposition of the application, whichever is later.

The provisions of this Rule 1307 amended March 11, 1991, effective July 1, 1991, 21 Pa.B. 1284; amended April 12, 1999, effective July 1, 1999, 29 Pa.B. 2266; amended December 19, 2003, effective July 1, 2004, 34 Pa.B. 22; amended November 2, 2007, effective January 1, 2008, 37 Pa.B. 6201. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (317017) to (317018).