Medical software maker Quality Systems Inc.’s battle with a dissident shareholder isn’t over just yet.
Ahmed Hussein, a shareholder and board member of Irvine-based Quality, said Thursday that he would appeal the Orange County Superior Court’s recent ruling that rejected his request to set aside the company’s board vote in September.
Hussein, in a statement, said at issue was whether more than 800,000 shares voted on behalf of people who didn’t return signed proxies were properly included in the final vote tally. Hussein said including those “uninstructed shares” in a contested election was improper.
Hussein led a spirited proxy fight last fall, claiming that Quality’s management was earning too much money and that insiders dominated the company’s board.
Quality shareholders elected two members of a dissident slate along with six of the company’s nominees to seats on its board.
Hussein and Ibrahim Fawzi were the dissidents elected. Management candidates who won were Chairman Sheldon Razin, Chief Executive Louis Silverman, Patrick Cline, Maurice DeWald, Vincent Love and Steven Plochocki.
William Botts and Jonathan Javitt, a pair of management candidates, lost, while dissident candidate Ian Gordon also lost.
Quality makes software that doctors and dentists use to manage their practices. The company’s business is booming amid a transition from paper to electronic medical records.
