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“Federal law required generic sulindac to have the same ingredients, the same warning and the same safety profile as the branded version,” attorney Jay P. Lefkowitz told the court.

From that data, Bartlett concluded that sulindac's design was unreasonably dangerous and defective.

But the jury found the company liable “because sulindac didn’t have a different safety profile, meaning a different ingredient or a different warning.”

In 2004, after she took the anti-inflammatory drug sulindac at her doctor’s direction to relieve shoulder pain, she developed a rare but known side effect: a form of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, or SJS/TEN.

Bartlett's doctor prescribed the brand-name Clinoril, and her pharmacist filled it with the generic sulindac.