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

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 EC-5000 Excimer Laser System to ...