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Virginia court holds that Longshore Act prohibits transfer of structured settlement payment rights

  • Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 21 2011

A Virginia state court has ruled that the anti-assignment provision of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq. (the “Longshore Act”) prohibits a transfer of structured settlement payment rights arising from a claim under the Longshore Act