First Bank v. Roslovic & Partners, Inc.

The sole issue presented is whether payments made by an account debtor to an assignor of accounts receivable after receiving sufficient notice of an assignment violate the assignment, thus subjecting the account debtor to liability to the assignee for the payments made to the assignor. First Bank is contesting only the checks payable to Mascrete to be used to pay wages.

R.C. 1309.37(C) provides the procedure by which an assignee of accounts receivable may obligate an account debtor for payments made on the accounts:

“(C) The account debtor is authorized to pay the assignor until the account…