NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – A New York judge has denied an air compressor manufacture’s motion for summary judgment in an electrician’s asbestos lawsuit, finding that the plaintiff presented appropriate triable issues of fact regarding his alleged exposure.

In her June 4 opinion, Judge Sherry Klein Heitler concluded that plaintiff John W. Adler, joined by his wife Elaine Adler, presented enough evidence showing he could have been exposed to asbestos from defendant Gardner Denver’s air compressors while aboard a Navy vessel, causing him to develop mesothelioma.