11/13/2025
A great win by Simon Bloom and Virginia Eith!
Judge Confirms $620K Award In Radiology Contract Dispute
By Kelcey Caulder · Listen to article
Law360 (November 12, 2025, 7:19 PM EST) -- A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $620,000 arbitration award in favor of an Indian teleradiology company against a radiology provider, rejecting the latter's bid to vacate the decision by claiming an arbitrator misinterpreted their long-standing services agreement.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert said the provider, Georgia-based The Radiology Group LLC, failed to show that the arbitrator in question exceeded his authority or engaged in any procedural misconduct and so the award stands.
Univabs Solutions Private Ltd., a teleradiology company that remotely transmits and interprets medical images, contracted in 2022 to provide radiology services to The Radiology Group in exchange for pay rendered according to a set fee schedule, according to the judge's order. The agreement also required all disputes to be resolved via final and binding arbitration.
When The Radiology Group allegedly ceased payment for the services, the parties took their dispute to the International Centre for Dispute Resolution division of the American Arbitration Association. An arbitrator awarded Univabs $620,840.57 for breach of contract, $94,4222 in pre-award interest and postjudgment interest on May 23.
The Radiology Group moved to vacate the award in August, claiming the AAA arbitrator's award wrongly handed Univabs 100% of its claim and "completely denied" The Radiology Group's $2 million counterclaim for fraud.
Rejecting that bid, Judge Calvert said vacatur would only be permitted in this case if the arbitrator strayed from interpretation and application of the agreement between the parties to effectively apply his own "brand of industrial justice."
That did not happen here, the judge found, saying it is clear that the arbitrator sought to give effect to the parties' intent and didn't modify any express term of the agreement.
The Radiology Group had argued for the award to be vacated in part because it believed the arbitrator failed to ensure Univabs complied with its discovery obligations, but again, Judge Calvert said that was not the case.
"Respondent's objection is on shaky grounds to begin with because there is no right in arbitration to the same discovery procedures enjoyed in federal courts," Judge Calvert said. "But moreover, while respondent argues the prejudice it suffered was 'self-evident,' it points to no specific prejudice it suffered based on its alleged failure to be permitted to present or examine witnesses. This is no basis to vacate the award."
According to The Radiology Group, the dispute at the center of the case began in 2012 after Vikas Verma, who owned and controlled Univabs since 2007, invested in it and secured substantial financial controls as a fiduciary manager in November 2011.
After Verma took on that role, The Radiology Group said, Univabs began substantially overcharging it for services. In March 2023, Univabs initiated arbitration, seeking damages for more than $620,000 in unpaid invoices. The Radiology Group responded by asserting a counterclaim for more than $2 million for fraud associated with improper conflicting interest transactions.
Counsel for the parties did not immediately respond to request for comment Wednesday.
The Radiology Group is represented by Todd Merolla of Merolla & Gold LLP.
Univabs is represented by Simon H. Bloom and Virginia Eith of Bloom Parham LLP.
The case is Univabs Solutions Private Ltd. v. The Radiology Group LLC, case number 1:25-cv-03932, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
--Editing by Stephen Berg.
