Mealey's (February 25, 2019, 1:54 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A 1997 settlement for a man’s nonmalignant asbestos disease does not preclude his subsequent action seeking to recover for mesothelioma, a divided New York Court of Appeals held Feb. 21 (In re: New York City Asbestos Litigation, Anne M. South, etc. v. Chevron Corp., etc., et al., No. APL-2017-00252, N.Y. App., 2019 N.Y. LEXIS 267)....