Editing Assignment (law) (section)

===Personal injury torts===
The standard rule is that [[personal injury]] [[tort]] causes of action are not assignable as a matter of [[Public policy (law)|public policy]].<ref name=Stark2003>Stark T. (2003). ''Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate'', [http://www.starklegaled.com/downloads/sample-nadcp-3.2.pdf Ch. 3: Assignment and Delegation]. ALM Publishing.</ref><ref>''Pony v. County of Los Angeles'', 433 F.3d 1138 (9th Cir. 2006).</ref> These should be distinguished from final settlements or judgments resulting from lawsuits brought on such causes of action, which may be assignable.