A patient owed a physician $25,000 for professional services…
A patient owed a physician $25,000 for professional services. The physician orally assigned this claim to her adult daughter as a wedding gift. Shortly thereafter, the physician suffered substantial losses in the stock market, and assigned by a signed writing the same claim to her stockbroker in partial satisfaction of previous financial advances legally made by the broker to the physician in the physician’s previous stock-market transactions. Without knowledge of either assignment, the patient subsequently paid the physician the $25,000 then due, which the physician promptly lost at a horse track, although she remains solvent. Assuming that Article 9 of the UCC does not apply to either of the assignments in this situation, which of the following is a correct statement of the parties’ rights and liabilities?