Minnesota Administrative Rules

2770.9150 RECOMMENDATION AND REPORT TO COMMISSIONER.

The arbitration panel shall promptly render a written report to the commissioner, in which it recommends a resolution to the claim at issue. The report shall include the panel's findings of fact and conclusions on all material issues, and shall be dated and signed by all members of the arbitration panel. Unless otherwise agreed to by the parties, the report shall be delivered to the commissioner no later than 30 days after the close of the hearing or the reopened hearings. In making its recommendation to the commissioner, the arbitration panel may assign actual costs and disbursements incurred, or any parts thereof, to one or both parties.

A copy of the arbitration panel's report shall be served upon each party or the party's representative by first class mail within five days of delivery of the report to the commissioner. Personal service of the report upon a party or in any other manner which may be prescribed by law shall also constitute legal delivery.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 45.023; 72A.327

History:

15 SR 1264

Published Electronically:

September 14, 2007