TLC LASIK Center in Billings named in patient's lawsuit
Posted: Mar 18, 2010 4:33 PM
Updated: Mar 18, 2010 5:22 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A lawsuit filed in South Carolina accuses TLC LASIK Centers across the country, including the one here in Billings, of causing patients serious injury during laser eye surgery.
The documents filed in federal court Wednesday accuse 30 centers of performing Lasik procedures on patients that had pre-existing conditions that should have kept them from being candidates at all.
The suit names several doctors, including Dr. David Boes, who's the co-medical director of the TLC Center in Billings.
The South Carolina resident who filed the suit is seeking up to 180 million dollars in damages.
His attorneys have asked the court for class action status so other patients can sign on.
TLC Vision, TLC LASIK Centers' parent company, has filed for bankruptcy.
We called both TLC and Dr. Boes today, but noone was available for comment.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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David at Mar 19th 2010 4:11 PM
WOW !!!!!!!!!!! Much Success to you on your Class Action Suit, as I too have been Effected by a bad Laser Procedure. I once thought getting shot thru the brain, which resulted in me having 3 "metallic clamps" inside my brain in Viet Nam was bad UNTIL I Trusted a Lasik Surgeon... Since the procedure... I have had to retire from my job in Govt. Service after 30 Plus years... and now I am at the point of ALMOST BEING LEFT HOME BOUND.
It is so amazing to know that my atty. can use "precedents" that were established by me in the supreme court of Va. and then find myself in this kind of shape.
Criminal .. just plain CRIMINAL...
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