A woman from Texas claims that her husband died in January 2007 as a result of his Digitek medication containing twice the active ingredient. On Jan. 23, 2008, Vickie Butts, representing the estate of her deceased husband, Donnie Butts, filed a product liability lawsuit against Actavis, the drug manufacturer, and Mylan, the distributor. The Southeast Texas Record states, “According to the original complaint, just a year after acquiring the business of manufacturing Digitek, the defendants received a warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that they had failed to provide periodic safety reports from its solid oral dose manufacturing
SOURCE: Righting Injustice › Texas woman sues Digitek manufacturer for husband’s death