(November 22, 2017, 11:04 AM EST) -- PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania federal bankruptcy judge on Nov. 9 approved a settlement under which more than 2,000 asbestos claimants from a decades-old consolidated Texas litigation will share up to $178.5 million from the asbestos trust established in the Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (PCC) bankruptcy case (In re: Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, No. 00-22876, W.D. Pa. Bkcy.)....