As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 1999
Filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
Registration Statement No. 333-73223
Supplement
dated April 27, 1999
to
Prospectus dated March 18, 1999
The section entitled "Selling Shareholders" is amended to include the
following paragraph:
On March 23, 1999, certain selling shareholders, including Neal Eigler,
Jerome Jackson, Catherine Diez-Luckie, Michael B. Van Der Zweep, Walter Blair,
Glen K. Furuta, James Whiting and Harold J. Levy, commenced an action in the
Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Mateo against US
Surgical and Tyco (Robert Hess et. al. v. United States Surgical Corporation and
Tyco International Ltd. Case No. 408451). The action alleges that US Surgical
and Tyco breached various agreements by failing to develop or pursue certain
lines of business owned or under development by PAS at the time it was acquired
by US Surgical, including the businesses against which the earn out
consideration and the milestone consideration are measurable. The plaintiffs
seek an unspecified amount of damages.
The table of Selling Shareholders is amended to include the following
shareholders:
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Common
Shares Common
Beneficially Common Shares
Owned Prior Shares Beneficially
to the Offered Owned After
Name of Shareholder Offering Hereby the Offering
- ------------------- -------- ------ ------------
<S> <C> <C> <C>
Bruce Addis................................ 3 3 -
Vaso Adzich................................ 8 8 -
Stephen Aiello............................. 17 17 -
Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, Inc. (for
Harold Levy)............................... 119 119 -
Ashtree Corporation........................ 53 53 -
John H. Bunch.............................. 219 7 212
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Stephen H. Case............................ 25 25 -
Steven Casey............................... 381 24 357
David L. Cohen............................. 95 95 -
Bryan C. Donohue, M.D...................... 87 87 -
James S. Forrester......................... 6,207 235 5,972
Claudio Gibelli............................ 1,587 59 1,528
Amy L. Hammack............................. 120 9 111
Alice Jack................................. 791 28 763
Gerald T. Keusch........................... 473 17 456
Frank P. McCormic.......................... 17 11 6
Paul McCormick............................. 250 250 -
Clinton T. Rubin (SUNY - Stony
Brook)..................................... 315 11 304
Lee Zwalen................................. 3 3 -
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