Mealey's (November 17, 2021, 12:00 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York appeals court on Nov. 16 affirmed a ruling allowing joint trial of an asbestos case against Kaiser Gypsum Inc., citing the fact that the cases involved the same defendant, types of exposure and resulting disease and calling the fact that one plaintiff was employed as a painter while the other was a carpenter a “distinction without a difference.”...