If you are a natural person "in" California, Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, or Wisconsin who paid for laser vision correction surgery performed using an excimer laser system manufactured by Summit Technology or Visx Incorporated, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates (including Autonomous Technologies), at any time from October 1, 1995 through February 22, 2000, then you are eligible to join a class action suit and be compensated for having been overcharged due to alleged price fixing by these companies.  You are "in" a state if you paid for the surgery in that state, resided in that state at the time you paid for the surgery, or now reside in that state.  Visx and Summit stand accused of conspiring to violate state antitrust and other laws by fixing artificially high per procedure fees charged to ophthalmologists and others who performed laser vision correction surgery, resulting in these overcharges being passed on to people who paid for laser vision correction surgery.  The cash amount of the settlement agreement is $12,500,000, subject to court approval

You must file a proof of claim by June 1, 2002 in order to share in the proposed settlement. 

To obtain a claim form:

http://www.lasikinfocenter.net/Litigation/Visx-Summit%20Class%20Action%20Claim%20Form.pdf