Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Insurance & Annuity Co. v. Peachtree Settlement Funding, LLC
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 2, 2016No. 01-15-00147-CVPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Laura Carter Higley, Justice
This dispute arises from an agreement in which Sara Swain1 transferred to Peachtree Settlement Funding, LLC (“Peachtree”) a portion of her structured settlement payments she • receives from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“Metropolitan Life”) and Metropolitan Insurance & Annuity Company (“Metropolitan Annuity”) in exchange for a lump-sum payment from Peachtree. Peachtree sought and obtained a final order from the district court, approving the agreement to transfer the structured settlement payments from Swain to Peachtree.
On appeal, Metropolitan Annuity…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Till v. Thomas, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)1999
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