According to the West Virginia Record, Goodwin wrote, “Some complaints in this MDL action join multiple plaintiffs whose only apparent connection with one another is that they ingested the drug at issue.”

Goodwin gave all plaintiff lawyers a Dec. 31 deadline “to identify all multi-plaintiff actions subject to his order and propose a severance order.”

After the 30 days of separation, the plaintiff must file a revised complaint. Goodwin wrote, “The severed and amended complaint must contain the specific claims asserted by the plaintiffs named in it.”

In cases of husbands and wives as plaintiffs, Goodwin won’t sever the cases.

For deaths and illnesses associated with Digitek, plaintiffs seek compensation from the Digitek drug companies Mylan Pharmaceuticals of West Virginia and Actavis Group.

SOURCE: Digitek Recall › Goodwin to seperate federal digitek complaints