O.A.No.895 of 2019 in

C.S.No.584 of 2019

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

Orders Reserved on : 22.06.2021

Orders Pronounced on : 06.07.2021

Coram:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE V.PARTHIBAN

Original Application No.895 of 2019

in

Civil Suit No.584 of 2019

Lapiz Digital Services,

A Division of Ultra Marine & Pigments Ltd.,

Rep. by its Accounts Manager Mr.E.Srinivasalu,

having office at R.R.Tower-IV,

5^th Floor, TVK Industrial Estate,

Guindy, Chennai-600 032.

.. Applicant/plaintiff

Vs.

1. Remitmed Heathcare Services Pvt. Ltd.,

Rep. by its Managing Director,

No.58/1, Manthoppu 1st Street,

Maduvinkarai, Guindy, Chennai-600 032

and also having address at:

No.9/10, Ganapathy Nagar,

1st Street, 2nd Floor,

Ekkatuthangal, Chennai-600 032.

2. Manikandan Balakrishnan,

S/o Balakrishnan

.. Respondents/defendants

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Judge's Summons issued under Order XIV Rule 8 of the Madras High

Court Original Side Rules and Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 of the Code of

Civil Procedure and application filed praying to grant interim injunction

restraining the respondents/defendants, their agents, men, representatives,

associates and assigns from in any manner interacting with, servicing,

entering into contract, communicating, receiving payments and specifically

from doing business with the applicant/plaintiff's customers/clients and in

particular, the applicant/plaintiff's clients enumerated in the Schedule

below:

Schedule of applicant/plaintiff's clients:

1. R1 RCM Inc, 401 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

2. PhyBus, 215 Jamestown Park Road, Suite 205, Brentwood, TN 37027

3. Medical Practice Solutions, 4501 Osuna Road NE, Albuquerque, NM

4. Madrelle Medical Billing, Inc., 6586 Hypoluxo Road, #268, Lake Worth,

FL, 33467

5. Advanced Data Systems Corporation, 15 Prospect Street, Paramus, NJ

07652

6. Physicians Reimbursement System LLC, 12301 Grant Street, #230,

Thornton, CO 80241

7. Edelberg Compliance Associates, 2078 Teron Trace Suite, Dacula,

Georgia 30019

8. Center for Orthopaedics, 716 West Germantown Pike, East Norriton, PA

19403,

pending disposal of the suit.

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For applicant : Mr.Perumbulavil Radhakrishnan

For respondents : Mr.T.Paranthaman for R-1

Mr.R.Ganesh Kumar for R-2

ORDER

The above application has been filed by the plaintiff, pending disposal

of the suit, seeking to grant an interim injunction restraining the

respondents/defendants, their agents, men, representatives, associates and

assigns from in any manner interacting with, servicing, entering into

contract, communicating, receiving payments and specifically from doing

business with the applicant/plaintiff's customers/clients and in particular, the

applicant/plaintiff's clients enumerated in the Schedule to the Judge's

Summons in the application.

2. The suit has been filed for the following reliefs:

(a) for permanent injunction injunction restraining the defendants,

their agents, men, representatives, associates and assigns from in any

manner interacting with, servicing, entering into contract, communicating,

receiving payments and specifically from doing business with the plaintiff's

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customers/clients and in particular, the plaintiff's clients enumerated in the

Schedule to the plaint;

(b) to direct the defendants to jointly and severally pay to the plaintiff

a sum of Rs.1,50,00,000/- as damages/compensation for wilful breach of

confidence and loss caused to the plaintiff;

(c) to direct the defendants to render a true and faithful account of the

earnings by the defendants by servicing the plaintiff's clients including

(i) Physicians Management Group LLC, 338 Cortland St, B