Claim Forfeited for Failure to Pay AAA Filing Fee
The obvious question about this case is why the parties even bothered to bring an appeal involving a $2,500 arbitration award arising from the construction of a dental office.
With that said, however, the case is instructive by demonstrating the broad authority of the arbitrator to fashion remedies -- here, by conditioning the owner's recovery on its counterclaim upon timely payment to the AAA of the required filing fee. Because the owner for unexplained reasons never paid the fee, it lost its right to recovery any sums on its counterclaim.
