Midtown Chiropractic v. Illinois Farmers Insurance Co.

DICKSON, Justice.

In this appeal, a chiropractic clinic seeks to assert an assignment signed by its patient to collect from a liability insurance company that paid the patient's personal injury tort claim not-withstanding the clinic's notice to the company of the assignment. The trial court granted summary judgment to the defendant, Illinois Farmers Insurance Company, and the Court of Appeals reversed, Midtown Chiropractic v. Illinois Farmers Ins., 812 N.E.2d 851 (Ind.Ct.App.2004). We granted transfer and affirm the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Illinois Farmers.

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