In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation

JOHNSON, Justice.

| ,We accepted the certified question presented to this Court by the United States *957Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, 613 F.3d 504 (5th Cir.2010).1 The question presented is “Does an anti-assignment clause in a homeowner’s insurance policy, which by its plain terms purports to bar any assignment of the policy or an interest therein without the insurer’s consent, bar an insured’s post-loss assignment of the insured’s claims under the policy when such an assignment transfers contractual obligations, not just the right to money due?”

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