Federal Law Dismisses LASIK Patients’ Cases

San Francisco 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal law prevents patients that had LASIK surgery from suing surgeons and doctors for not explaining that LASIK was not approved as a farsightedness treatment, according to a Thomson Reuters report.

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The patients’ putative class action case addressed surgeries done between 1996 and 2006.

The case was dismissed in the lower courts. The circuit court’s March 25 ruling upheld the decision to dismiss based on the grounds that the case conflicts with FDA authority and federal law overseeing medical devices.

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