Trademark Application Doesn't Implicate Exposure to Asbestos Brake Product

NEW YORK - A trademark application indicating that a company was in the business of producing goods and services associated with automobile and truck brakes is not sufficient evidence creating an issue of fact in a case alleging exposure to asbestos-containing air brakes, a New York trial justice has ruled. Lechner v. ACandS, Inc., et al., No. 002411/02 (New York Sup. Ct., Nassau Cty.).

In a decision issued Aug. 1, Justice Ralph P. Franco of the Nassau County Supreme Court dismissed defendant Standard Motor Products, Inc., after plaintiffs failed to show that the company made the specific type of asbestos-containing …