A US district court judge has granted Digitek lawsuit lawyers an additional 15 days to agree to a settlement amount for fees with the manufacturer and distributor of the drug. Judge Joseph Goodwin has previously stated that he would settle the cases on June 5 in the absence of an agreement, but has now given [...]

In December 2010, the manufacturer of Digitek agreed to pay as much as $13 million to settle thousands of lawsuits that have been filed against the company by users of the drug. Digitek was recalled in April 2008 after it was revealed that some pills manufactured by Actavis contained double the normal dose of their [...]

Drugmaker Actavis has reached an agreement with U.S. health authorities to temporarily close three New Jersey plants in order to resolve violations of Food and Drug Admininstration “Good Manufacturing Practices” that occurred there. The company agreed to close two manufacturing plants and a third packaging plant until it could show that it was in compliance [...]