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Biotech / Medical : VISX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Mac who wrote (471)	3/27/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: johny	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1754

Uhoh Class Action trouble is starting:Connsumers File Price Fixing Complaint Against Visx, Inc., And Summit Technology Corporation - The Alexander Law Firm PR Newswire - March 26, 1998 14:55 %MTC V%PRN P%PRN SAN JOSE, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A class action lawsuit has been filed in Santa Clara County Courthouse, San Jose, California, by a consumer patient who allegedly overpaid for vision-correction surgery known as photorefractive keratectomy. The complaint alleges that the defendants Visx, Inc., and Summit Technology Corporation engaged in antitrust activities through a "pooling" arrangement between the two defendants for the vision corrective surgery. The case has been filed as class action on behalf of patient consumers throughout the United States. The consumers are represented by, among other firms, William M. Audet of The Alexander Law Firm, San Jose, California, and Kevin M. Prongay of Prongay & Borderud, Pacific Palisades, California.