CL retailer settles Texas trade dispute

Online supplier Vision Path and its Hubble contact lens retail business has settled a deceptive trade practices case worth nearly $400,000 brought by Texas attorney general Ken Paxton and the state’s Consumer Protection Division.

It was alleged that Hubble had ‘deceptively marketed’ its lenses by representing them as ‘high quality’, despite being made from methafilcon A hydrogel material, which has existed for two decades.

Consumers and optometrists complained to the attorney general’s division that returned shipments were not refunded, comfort fit of Hubble lenses was poor and that the company fulfilled consumer orders for toric lenses when torics were not in the product portfolio.