J.G. Wentworth LLC v. Christian, 07 Ma 113 (6-17-2008)

OPINION

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellants Otisha Christian, et al. appeal the decision of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court which granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee J.G. Wentworth, LLC. The issue on appeal is whether the decedent's agreement to transfer his future scheduled payments from a structured settlement annuity allowed J.G. Wentworth, as the decedent's purported assignee, to bar appellants, who are the named beneficiaries on the annuity, from collecting the payments due after the decedent's death. There are multiple subissues including: whether appellants have…