Extract from Annie Mayne’s article, “‘ The Wave Is Coming’: Silent AI Presents New Threats in Insurance Litigation.”
As insurance companies start to use artificial intelligence in everyday business, attorneys who defend carriers say they’re being met with a bevy of new legal risks—some that remain murky or undefined.
But amid that uncertainty, one thing is clear: Courts are already weighing litigation related to AI and its impact trade secrets, intellectual property, privacy and defamation.
And litigators need to create strategies in real time to protect clients against risks tied to general liability policies, E&O or errors and omissions, exposures to employment practices in hiring, and media liability coverages.
