(November 22, 2016, 11:38 AM EST) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — A state system designed to compensate injured police officers does not constitute a workers’ compensation system and allows for a tort action alleging exposure to asbestos while in the employ of the city of Buffalo, a divided New York Court of Appeals held Nov. 21 (In the Matter of James R. Diegelman, et al. v. City of Buffalo, et al., No. 168, N.Y. App.)....