(Legal Newsline) - A U.K. company at the center of an international fight over jurisdiction for asbestos lawsuits has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling by South Carolina’s highest court allowing a personal injury lawyer to serve as court-appointed receiver over one of its subsidiaries.

(Legal Newsline) - Plaintiff lawyers who have pushed dubious claims that talcum powder causes ovarian cancer for more than a decade have agreed to settle nearly all their cases after suffering a courtroom loss over expert witnesses and a disclosure of conflicts that could have cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in fees.