( October 30, 2025, 9:22 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The New York Court of Appeals denied a motion for leave to appeal in a case in which a lower court found that testimony from an industrial hygienist and thoracic surgeon satisfied the specific causation standard in New York and that precluding a boiler company from cross-examining the surgeon about exposures for which it had not established liability was not an error (Maffei v. A.O. Smith Water Prods. Co....