An online contact lens company will pay $3.5 million as part of a settlement agreement reached Friday to resolve allegations that the company violated the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act and the FTC’s Contact Lens Rule.
According to court records, the government alleged that Hubble Contacts sold its products without taking the steps required to verify the subscriber’s contact lens prescription, improperly substituting Hubble’s own brand of contact lenses for those originally prescribed by consumers’ eye care practitioners and procuring what it falsely portrayed as independent consumer reviews of its products and services.
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