UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

             Litigation Release No.  15913  / September 29, 1998

             SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION V. TERRI R. SCOTT
             Civil Action No. : 98-S-2090   (U.S. Dist.Ct. Colo.)

                  The Commission today filed an insider trading case
             against Terri R. Scott, a former officer of Fischer Imaging
             Corporation based in Denver, Colorado.  The Commission
             alleges that, between July and September 1996, Scott engaged
             in illegal insider trading in Fischer stock and avoided
             losses of $23,402.

                  The complaint, filed in the United States District
             Court for the District of Colorado, alleges that Scott
             received earnings information and projections as director of
             a Fischer division and that she attended executive staff
             meetings in July and August 1996 at which it was announced
             that Fischer would achieve lower than anticipated earnings
             for the third quarter of 1996.  As the projections of an
             earnings decline became more definite, Scott sold increasing
             amounts of Fischer stock.  By September 19, 1996, when
             Fischer publicly announced that its third quarter 1996
             earnings would be lower than analysts' projections, Scott
             had sold her entire position, 4,233 shares, of Fischer
             common stock.  The Commission seeks to enjoin Scott from
             further violations of the antifraud provisions of the
             federal securities laws, as well as disgorgement of the
             $23,402 in avoided losses, prejudgment interest and civil
             money penalties.