Mass Filing Threshold
The number of similar demands that triggers a provider's mass arbitration rules.
Providers apply their mass regimes only above a numeric trigger. The AAA's mass rules reach twenty-five or more similar demands in the consumer and employment context, with a higher threshold outside it; JAMS applies a single seventy-five-claimant trigger regardless of dispute type. Thresholds matter tactically in both directions — claimants' counsel may stage filings to stay beneath a trigger, and respondents draft to pull filings above one.
See also
- American Arbitration Association (AAA)The largest US arbitration provider, and the default forum named in most consumer clauses.
- JAMSA major US provider whose mass arbitration procedures apply only by express agreement.
- Process ArbitratorAn AAA-appointed neutral who resolves administrative disputes before merits arbitrators are appointed.
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