MedicalCV, Inc. and J Giordano Securities Group Agree to Settle Arbitration.MINNEAPOLIS -- MedicalCV, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :MCVI MCVI Michigan Cardiovascular Institute (Bay City, Michigan) MCVI Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute ), www.medcvinc.com, announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement pursuant to which MedicalCV will pay J Giordano Securities Group $750,000 in cash. Without admitting any liability or wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong do , the parties entered
into the settlement agreement to resolve the disputes stemming from the
parties' December 2004 engagement agreement.
"Although we firmly believe that J Giordano's claims were without merit, we determined, after careful consideration, to enter into the settlement agreement to avoid the costs, uncertainty and management resource allocation issues associated with protracted pro·tract tr.v. pro·tract·ed, pro·tract·ing, pro·tracts 1. To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong: disputants who needlessly protracted the negotiations. 2. legal proceedings," said Marc P. Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , President and Chief Executive Officer of MedicalCV, Inc. The dispute originally stemmed from a December 2004 engagement agreement. MedicalCV, Inc. previously paid J Giordano Securities Group cash commissions of $573,000 and issued a warrant for the purchase of 114,600 shares of common stock in connection with a private placement that generated gross cash proceeds of $13,600,000 in April 2005. In the arbitration, J Giordano Securities Group claimed it was entitled to alleged damages of $3,346,565 plus reimbursement for reasonable expenses, interest, costs and attorneys' fees. "With hearings scheduled for this week, our board determined it was in the best interests of our company and our shareholders to settle the matter rather than spending more to fight it, tying up management resources, and risking an adverse outcome," Flores said. About MedicalCV, Inc. MedicalCV, Inc. is a medical device company that develops, manufactures and sells innovative, laser-based surgical ablation systems to create precise, clinically relevant lesions, or scars, in soft tissue and in cardiac tissue. The Company's core products are the SOLAR[TM] and ATRILAZE[TM] Surgical Ablation Systems for use in soft and cardiac tissue ablation procedures, respectively. The ATRILAZE[TM] System has been utilized in concomitant open-heart and, by some cardiothoracic surgeons, in minimally invasive cardiac surgery minimally invasive cardiac surgery Interventional cardiology Any of a number of techniques–MIDCAB, off-pump coronary-artery bypass, minimally invasive valve surgery, port-access coronary surgery, and port-access valve surgery–increasingly being used to procedures. The SOLAR[TM] System has been used in concomitant ablation procedures on both stopped and beating hearts. The Company's common stock is traded on the OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. under the symbol "MCVI.OB." |
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