LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 5, 2013) - MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCQB: MMRF), through its wholly owned subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. (collectively, "MMR"), today announced that pursuant to an order dated September 4, 2013, the Appellate Court ruled in favor of MMR officially remanding the appeal of Surgery Center Management, LLC ("SCM") back to the trial court at Los Angeles County Superior Court where MMR will pursue its claim for breach of contract, seeking as much as $30 million in damages against SCM. The favorable decision was decided without oral argument by the parties, giving MMR a green light to move forward with the case in the trial court. The Court of Appeal ruled on the written briefs alone which MMR believes vindicates its position that there never was a valid basis for the appeal and it was nothing more than a stalling tactic by SCM.
The case stems from a December 9, 2011 Non-Exclusive Settlement and Patent License Agreement whereby SCM contracted to pay MMR an initial payment of $5 million payable on December 23, 2011, and additional payments of $5 million per year for five consecutive years, to license certain of MMR's health IT and Personal Health Record patents covering uses of its personal and professional health IT products and services. On January 19, 2012, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles for breach of contract and damages in an amount of $30 million. On September 19, 2012, the Company engaged the law firm of Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP ("Liner") to represent MMR in the matter. MMR believes there is no viable defense to SCM's breach of the Agreement at issue and that its claim against SCM continues to be collectible based on a series of publicized settlements involving SCM pertaining to other matters.
MMR is a leading provider of Personal Health Records ("PHRs"), MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals. MMR currently has eight U.S. health information technology patents and continuation applications and pending patents covering inventions pertaining to Personal Health Records, Patient Portals and other Electronic Health Record systems. MMR also has health IT patents issued or pending in 12 other countries of commercial interest including Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel, and European nations.
About MMRGlobal
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc., provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, retail pharmacies, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering, MMRPro, is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients through an integrated patient portal. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId™/Specifid™ vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMRGlobal, Inc. visit www.mmrglobal.com. View demos and video tutorials of the Company's products and services at www.mmrtheater.com.
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