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 / 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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Lawsuits Against Patients Backfire on Litigious Surgeons

Law suits, doctors, patients, relationships, transparency Kent Bottles As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am fascinated by the doctor/patient relationship. I have blogged on this subject often, and I have pocast interviews with thoughtful experts on this subject like Carl E. Schneider. Today brought more evidence that neither doctors nor patients are all that thrilled by the state of the doctor/patient relationship. Techdirt in "Doctors Furious That People Might Criticize Them Online" (http://techdirt.com/articles/20050914/1318205_F.shtml) looks at doctors from the...
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Dr. Nicholas Caro Sues Lasik Patient for $2 Million After Damaging His Vision

Dr. Nicholas Caro has filed a lawsuit seeking $2,000,000 in damages from Dean Kantis, after previously performing LASIK on him.  Dr. Caro alleges in his lawsuit that Dean Kantis "has engaged in an ongoing process of telephoning, mailing, facsimile transmitting, e-mails and related written communications, to various governmental bodies and/or individuals, including, but not limited to:  (a) Better Business Bureau of Chicago (b) Brett (sic) Hanson." Dr. Caro is represented by Eric Phillip Ferleger an attorney whose license was...
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Dr. Anita Nevyas Sues Patient After Damaging His Vision

Dr. Herbert Nevyas and Dr. Anita Nevyas filed a lawsuit against Dominic Morgan for operating a web site at LasikDecision.com, and obtained an injunction to prevent Dominic from publishing information about this case. IT IS ORDERED THAT, ON COUNT III OF THE COMPLAINT, THE AGREEMENT WHICH WAS ENTERED INTO BY DEFT, MORGAN AND PLTFS ON OR ABOUT THE PERIOD 7/30/03 THROUGH 8/4/03 IS ENFORCED AND DEFT, MORGAN WILL NOT MENTION DR NEVYAS OR HIS PRACTICE OR ANYTHING CONCERNING PAST ITEMS...
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