The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has issued and order consolidating all federal lawsuits related to defective, double strength Digitek (commonly known as Digitalis or Digoxin ) to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.

Approximately 60 federal Digitek lawsuits have been filed to date in federal courts across the country. Multi District Litigation, MDL, is a tool used by the federal courts to consolidate pre-trial discovery and to speed up the process by having one court, one judge responsible for all pre-trial proceedings. MDL's have often resulted in the settlement of mass torts in the past. There have been no Digitek settlement talks to date.

Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, has been assigned to oversee MDL 1968, In Re: Digitek Products. The Digitek MDL transfer order describes him as an “experienced MDL transferee judge with a docket that will allow him to devote the needed attention to these cases.”