District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order denying a petition to approve the proposed transfer of structured settlement payment rights from appellee to appellant in exchange for a lump sum payment is affirmed where the structured settlement agreement contained an anti-assignment provision which was valid and enforceable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2006
• Published 11/22/2006

Judges

• WARNER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott J. Topolski and H. Michael Muniz of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP, Boca Raton, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey M. Landau of Shutts & Bowen LLP, Miami, and Katherine A. Scanlon and Peter J. Vodola of Pullman & Comley, LLC, Hartford, CT, for appellees Symetra Life Insurance Company and Symetra Assigned Benefits Service Co.