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LASIK patients can’t sue over ‘off-label’ uses 

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    • March 28, 2013

Eye surgery patients could not pursue product liability claims based solely on their doctors’ “off-label” use of laser medical devices to perform their procedures, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
Sometime before October 2006, the plaintiff underwent LASIK eye surgery with a Nidek » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2013/03/28/lasik-patients-cant-sue-over-off-label-uses/

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