Plaintiff Jenna Reed has filed a lawsuit against Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Alcon Manufacturing, Ltd., and Alcon Refractive Horizons, Inc. in the United State District Court for the District of Colorado. Plaintiffs filed the complaint seeking damages against Alcon for strict liability, negligence, breach of warranty, misrepresentation, and violation of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.
The lawsuit is based on the recall issued by the US Food and Drug Administration on the defendants’ excimer surgical laser system, known as the LADAR6000 Excimer Laser ( the “LADAR6000″) due to reports that the LADAR6000′s CustomCornea Myopia and CustomCornea Myopia with Astigmatism algorithm procedures were causing Acentral islands@ in patients.
Plaintiffs allege the recall came too late for Plaintiff Jenna Reed. On September 22, 2006, Mrs. Reed’s doctor performed LASIK surgery on her, and programmed the LADAR6000 to perform CustomCornea Myopia with
Astigmatism on Jenna Reed. Ms. Reed has developed “central islands,” which are a laser created defect in her eyes caused by the laser’s uneven application of energy to her corneas. As a consequence of resultant
peaks and valleys in her corneas, Ms. Reed has allegedly been left with a permanent visual disability marked by problems with her vision, which include, without limitation, blurring, ghosting, double vision,
photosensitivity, poor night vision, and ocular headaches.
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