Refractive Surgery News

SLAPP Lawsuit Against 100 LASIK Patients by CRSQA Dismissed

On April 7, 2009 Glenn Hagele and the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance, filed a frivolous SLAPP lawsuit against Dr. Lauranell Burch and 100 LASIK patients in an effort to silence their complaints on the internet about medical malpractice.  On February 8, 2010, the court ordered the lawsuit against Dr. Lauranell Burch and 100 patients to be dismissed with prejudice. This means that CRSQA can never again refile this lawsuit in an effort to intimidate and silence LASIK patients....
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Glenn Hagele's Criminal Conduct Cited in Attorney's Motion to Withdraw from USAEYES/CRSQA Lawsuit

Glenn Hagele filed a frivolous lawsuit against Dr. Lauranell Burch in North Carolina in December 2007.  On December 14, 2009 Jonathan Sasser, the attorney for Glenn Hagele, filed a motion to withdraw from representation and cited the following provisions of North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct: 1.16(b(3) 1.16(b)(4) 1.16(b(5),  The portion of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct which Jonathan Sasser cited is: Rule 1.16 Declining or Terminating Representation (a) Except as stated in paragraph (c), a lawyer shall...
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Dr. Jack Holladay Accused of Perjury and Fraud by Bankruptcy Trustee

Debtor knowingly and fraudulently made false oaths when he signed and executed his original Schedules that excluded a number of items of substantial value and otherwise contained incorrect information. Debtor further made false oaths at the 341 Meeting of Creditors when he testified that his Schedules were true and correct and when he testified under oath that nothing at his Bellaire home was of any value. He made a further false oath when he testified at the 341 Meeting of Creditors that he specifically recalled not executing any financial statement to Bank of America, when in fact he did provide such a financial statement, which statement was withheld from HEA for 5 months.
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USAEYES-Fraud.com Web Site Launched

USAEYES-FRAUD.com web site exposes false advertising by CRSQA and Glenn Hagele.
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Dr. Benjamin Chang Targeted by Patient Web Site

From www.stahleyecenter-malpractice.com/benjamin_chang.html When Dr. Benjamin Chang performs LASIK laser eye surgery on you, he will obtain your personal identity information from you, and then fax it directly to Glenn Hagele at his home.  When Glenn Hagele receives your personal identity information, you will be at risk of identity theft because Glenn Hagele has a history or publishing the personal identity of patients against whom he develops grudges.  See the following example from Glenn Hagele's patient harassment web site in...
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Dr. Thierry Hufnagel Targeted by Patient Web Site

From www.stahleyecenter-malpractice.com/thierry_hufnagle.html When Dr. Thierry Hufnagle performs LASIK laser eye surgery on you, he will obtain your personal identity information from you, and then fax it directly to Glenn Hagele at his home.  When Glenn Hagele receives your personal identity information, you will be at risk of identity theft because Glenn Hagele has a history or publishing the personal identity of patients against whom he develops grudges.  See the following example from Glenn Hagele's patient harassment web site in...
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Dr. Marc Werner Targeted by Patient Web Site

From www.stahleyecenter-malpractice.com/marc_werner.html When Dr. Marc Werner performs LASIK laser eye surgery on you, he will obtain your personal identity information from you, and then fax it directly to Glenn Hagele at his home.  When Glenn Hagele receives your personal identity information, you will be at risk of identity theft because Glenn Hagele has a history or publishing the personal identity of patients against whom he develops grudges.  See the following example from Glenn Hagele's patient harassment web site in...
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StahlEyeCenter-Malpractice.com Web Site Launched

From www.stahleyecenter-malpractice.com Our Mission:  Expose false advertising, patient harassment, extortion, and lawsuits against LASIK critics by CRSQA, aka "USA Eyes". CRSQA is an advertising agency for 32 LASIK surgeons, disguised as a surgeon certification and patient advocacy group.  This organization is operated by Glenn Hagele out of his home in Sacramento California as a tax-free non-profit organization. Although Glenn Hagele's educational credentials consist of nothing more than a high school diploma, he claims to evaluate surgeons' surgical skill and...
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Dr. Jack Holladay Targeted by Patient Web Site

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Sacramento District Attorney Places Liens on Property of USAEyes / CRSQA Executive Director for Unpaid Child Support

SEATTLE, Washington,  March 30, 2007, /LASIK Newswire/ Public documents recently uncovered by Brent Hanson show that the Sacramento District Attorney directed the Bureau of Family Support to place liens on all property owned by Glenn Hagele, for his refusal to pay court-ordered child support.  View a scanned copy of the order by the Sacramento District Attorney, at LasikFraud.com. SOURCE:  USAEyes-Fraud.com...
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Executive Director of USAEyes / CRSQA Files Bankrupty for $430,000, with Over 50 Creditors

SEATTLE, Washington,  March 28, 2007, /LASIK Newswire/ Public documents recently uncovered by Brent Hanson show that the Glenn Hagele filed a bankruptcy petition for the amount of $431,000, with over 50 creditors.  View a scanned copy of the bankruptcy filing, at LasikFraud.com. SOURCE:  USAEyes-Fraud.com...
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IRS and State of California Place Liens on Property of USAEyes / CRSQA Executive Director for Unpaid Taxes

SEATTLE, Washington,  March 29, 2007, /LASIK Newswire/ Public documents recently uncovered by Brent Hanson show that the IRS and State of California placed liens on property owned by Glenn Hagele, for his failure to pay taxes.  View a scanned copy of the liens, at LasikFraud.com. SOURCE:  USAEyes-Fraud.com...
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Dr. Stephen Brint Sued by Rand Hoch for Medical Malpractice

Press Release from Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, PA While LASIK eye surgery is often an effective solution to the inconvenience of glasses, the procedure, which involves laser reshaping of the cornea, can lead to tragic results if pre-surgery screening or the procedure itself is not performed with proper care. West Palm Beach attorney and retired workers' compensation judge, Rand Hoch, learned the hard way that "guarantees" about the safety and effectiveness of LASIK surgery cannot always be relied...
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John Ciccone / ASCRS Submit Falsified LASIK Report to the Government

On August 28, John Ciccone, Communications Director of ASCRS (American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery) submitted a falsified version of THE LASIK REPORT: A Call for the Discontinuation of a Harmful Procedure to a government agency, at the request of Glenn Hagele who published the following statement on the alt.lasik-eyes newsgroup: The fantasy that Burch calls "The LASIK Report", fully attributed to her, is being distributed to all doctors cited, Burch's employer...  Contrary to Glenn Hagele's statements that The...
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Glenn Hagele / USAEYES / CRSQA Threatens to File Frivolous Lawsuits Against Five Patients

Glenn Hagele / USAEYES / CRSQA has sent identical letters to five patients in which he threatened to sue them for defamation. The patients include owners of pro-consumer web sites, and one patient who does not own a web site.
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Glenn Hagele / USAEYES / CRSQA Threatens Lawsuit Over Star Wars Cartoons

Glenn Hagele of USAEYES / CRSQA threatened to filed a lawsuit against two women for publishing cartoons involving Darth Vader from Star Wars.
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Glenn Hagele / USAEYES / CRSQA Promotes Junk LadarVision Lasers

Glenn Hagele who operates a surgeon referral service known as CRSQA and USAEYES published the following statement at alt.lasik-eyes on December 22, 2005. The Alcon LADARVision excimer laser does not appear to have any inherent design problems and hundreds of thousands of patients have had satisfactory outcomes. In fact, even those who alledged a problem acknowledged that no patients were harmed. However, the FDA has described serious problems with the laser involving "Laser not firing", "Translator malfunction", "Loss of tracking",...
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Ron Link of SurgicalEyes.org Goes Berserk and Issues Hundreds of Threats to File Lawsuits

Ron Link the founder and former director of Surgical Eyes has apparently gone berserk and begun posting hundreds of identical messages on the alt.lasik-eyes newsgroup, in which he has threatened to sue Glenn Hagele and Christopher Roiland.  In his postings, Ron Link has accused Glenn Hagele and Christopher Roiland of defamation, breaking laws, and committing criminal acts. Ron Link founded Surgical Eyes in the late 1990's, ostensibly to help patients of failed refractive surgeries.  Surgical Eyes ceased to exist in...
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Glenn Hagele / CRSQA / USAEYES vs. Collection Agency

ACE Judgment Recovery Service P.O. Box 438.  Mt. Prospect, IL 60056-0438.  (847) 981-1330 ace.recovery@comcast.net We enforce and recover your delinquent civil judgments May 9, 2005 Brent Hanson 1687 Whitehall Court Wheeling, IL 60090 Dear Mr. Hanson, While conducting standard case file research we noticed that on 2/21/03 you were awarded a judgment of $2850.00 in Rolling Meadows Municipal Court against Glenn Hagele.  As a judgment holder, you have the right to assign your judgment to a third party to enforce...
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Dr. Glenn Kawesch Sued by Aris Vision Institute for Breach of Contract

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Dr. Glenn Kawesch Sued by Margaret Cheleman for Medical Malpractice

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Ophthalmologists' E-mails Posted on Public Internet Newsgroup

http://www.crstoday.com/02_current/crst0103_01_news.html Glenn Hagele, Founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (CRSQA), recently alerted a number of physicians, as well as Julia Lewis, the Executive Director of the International Society for Refractive Surgery (ISRS), and Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, that excerpts of e-mails exchanged by physician members of ISRS via its mail list at isrsnet@list.isrs.org containing “candid exchanges about patients, techniques, manufacturers, and other doctors” have been posted on the public Internet uncensored newsgroup alt.lasik-eyes....
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Dr. Jack Holladay Files $2,000,483 Bankruptcy to Escape a $750,000 Judgment

On January 7, 2003 Dr. Jack Holladay filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy petition in the amount of $2,000,483.19 in order to escape a $750,000 judgment that was awarded to Houston Eye Associates P.C., in a lawsuit for Breech-of-Contract.  Court documents show that the bankruptcy court trustee filed complaints against Dr. Jack Holladay for fraud and perjury. Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Petition (Adobe PDF) Bankruptcy Trustee's Complaint Against Dr. Jack Holladay (Adobe PDF)  (HTML) Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(2) Debtor...
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Dr. Glenn Kawesch Sued by Virginia King for Wrongful Termination

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Dr. Glenn Kawesch Sued by Michael Pines for Medical Malpractice

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Dr. Barrie Soloway Sued by Eric Schuler-Dalverny for for Medical Malpractice

Each of the defendants, their agents, servants, partners and/or employees, were negligent and careless in the services rendered for and on behalf of the plaintiff; in negligently and carelessly failing and neglecting to heed the plaintiff's condition; in negligently performing refractive eye surgery; in negligently and carelessly taking a history; in negligently and carelessly failing to examine and evaluate the eyes of the plaintiff; in negligently and carelessly discharging the plaintiff without adequate follow-up procedures; in failing to take adequate tests; in failing to promptly and properly perform refractive eye surgery; in failing to promptly and properly perform tests and procedures; in failing to heed the complaints of the plaintiff; in ignoring the complaints of the plaintiff; in negligently and carelessly departing from accepted practices and services rendered; in performing contraindicated procedures on the plaintiff; in failing to perform indicated procedures; in failing to follow good practice; and otherwise being negligent.
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Dr. Glenn Kawesch Sued by George Biagi for Medical Malpractice and Fraud

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Dr. Glenn Kawesch Sued by Frank Soya for Medical Malpractice

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Dr. Thomas Tooma Sued by Jerry Lehrer for Professional Negligence and Fraud

Read the lawsuit titled Dr. Thomas Tooma Sued by Jerry Lehrer for Professional Negligence and Fraud at www.usaeyes-fraud.com....
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Dr. Robert Maloney Sued by Yvette Boleslav for Medical Malpractice, Assault and Battery

That because of intentional misrepresentations made to plaintiff by defendants, and each of them, to the effect that eye "floaters" could not be produced or increased as the result of the defendants’ recommended surgical procedure, plaintiff submitted to the so-called "advanced" type of surgery, which, in fact, did cause and increase floaters in both of plaintiff’s eyes, so as to seriously interfere with her vision, and the details of which has been described in paragraphs 4, 5, and 6, above; that had the defendants advised plaintiff that the contemplated surgery was known to have caused, and/or increased eye "floaters" in other patients, plaintiff would never have submitted to surgery.
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Dr. Thomas Tooma Violates FDA Safety Protocols

Excerpt from the FDA warning letter: "The purpose of this Warning Letter is to inform you of objectionable conditions found during a Food and Drug Admininstration (FDA) inspection of your clinical site, to discuss your written response to the deviations noted, and to request a prompt reply with regard to the remaining issues. The inspection took place during the period of December 22, 1999 and January 13, 2000, and was conducted by Mr. ALlen F Hall, an investigator from FDA's...
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Dr. David Dulaney Violates FDA Safety Protocols

Excerpt from FDA warning letter: "The purpose of this letter is to warn you that your [redacted] system (the [redacted] located at the Barnet Dulaney Eye Center in Mesa, Arizona, may not be used to treat patients beyond the conditions of approval of your investigational device exemption (IDE). Any use of the [redacted] beyond the terms of the FDA-approved IDE is in violation of federal law. 21. U.S.C. § 351(f)(1)(B). As discussed further below, inspection of your facility by the...
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Dr. Philip Roholt Violates FDA Safety Protocols

Excerpt from the FDA warning letter: "On February 19-20, 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected the former site of your medical practice in Green, Ohio and on May 13, 1997, we inspected your current location in North Canton, Ohio. These inspections revealed that you are continuing to use an unapproved excimer laser system, which was manufactured by Photon Data, Inc., Winter Park, Florida, and assembled by yourself and Mr. Chung Lee, consultant with Nexus Technology, Inc., Ovledo, Florida."...
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