Overview
- This week the parents of former Penn Hills officer Ryan Kingerski filed a wrongful-death suit against LASIKPlus and the surgeon who performed his procedure.
- The complaint alleges Kingerski was not identified as a high-risk candidate based on his eye measurements and was not told about risks or safer alternatives before surgery.
- The family says Kingerski suffered months of severe symptoms after the August 2024 procedure, including headaches, double vision, floaters and extreme light sensitivity, and was later diagnosed with diffuse lamellar keratitis.
- LASIKPlus has said patients receive informed-consent forms that outline risks and alternatives and that there is no clinical evidence linking LASIK to suicide; the lawsuit’s causal claims are unproven and the case is pending.
- The case seeks damages under Pennsylvania’s Wrongful Death Act and could prompt renewed scrutiny of screening, consent and postoperative care standards for common elective eye surgeries that have low overall complication rates.