is a property right that can be assigned unless assignment is prohibited by statute or is contrary to public policy. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Gandy, 925 S.W.2d 696, 707 (Tex.1996) (“[F]ree alienation of choses in action [is] the general rule, but ... [e]ven today, the general rule is that a contractual assignment may be ‘inoperative on grounds of public policy.’ ” (citing Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 317(e)(b) (1981)); Seiter v. Marschall, 105 Tex. 205, 147 S.W. 226 (1912) (observing that assignment of partial interest in assignor’s cause of action conveyed after adverse judgment on claim could be prosecuted in assignor’s name on appeal to extent of assignee’s interest in claim); Camden Fire Ins. Ass’n v. Eckel, 14 S.W.2d 1020, 1021-22 (Tex.Com.App.1929, judgm’t adopted) (<HOLDING>); Vinson & Elkins v. Moran, 946 S.W.2d 381, 390
holding that insureds criminal convictions were sufficient to preclude relitigation of the issue of the insureds subjective intent for purposes of evaluating the insurers duty to defend holding that an administrator that has control over and makes the ultimate determination regarding the merits of an insureds claim must act in good faith in processing the insureds claims holding that insurance company could sue in insureds name following assignment of insureds interest against tortfeasor holding that defendant insurance company could not be held liable in negligence to a plaintiff for failure to disclose the insureds medical condition where defendant insurance company had not assumed a professional and expert position with respect to the insureds physical condition holding that the district court erred in dismissing the injured party from the insureds declaratory relief action based on a default judgment entered against the insured and the insureds tortfeasor son