Settlement with Contact Lens Company for its Deceptive Trade Practices

Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General

AUSTIN (News Release) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, through his Consumer Protection Division, has secured a deceptive trade practices settlement against Vision Path, Inc.—specifically, its Hubble contact lens business—in state district court in Bexar County, Texas. Hubble will pay $300,000 in civil penalties, $70,000 in attorneys’ fees, and $2,100 in restitution for certain consumers.

Hubble deceptively marketed its lenses by representing them as “high quality” even though they were manufactured using older technology that many other contacts lens companies had moved away from. Furthermore, Hubble failed to verify consumers’ contact lens prescriptions with prescribers before filling orders, a violation of the Contact Lens Prescription Act that resulted in many consumers receiving the wrong contact lenses. When consumers complained, Hubble wrongly blamed the prescribers.

Read the settlement here.