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Arbitration Procedure

Reasoned Award

An award setting out the arbitrator's reasoning rather than a bare result.

Whether an award must be reasoned is a matter of contract and provider rules. In mass proceedings the question carries added weight: reasoned awards in bellwether cases become the de facto precedent governing an inventory, while bare awards leave later claimants without any basis to assess how their claims were valued.

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