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Insurer Mapfre Faces Class Actions Over Data Breach

Sep 13 2023 // Two proposed class actions have been filed in federal court in Massachusetts against Mapfre U.S.A. Corp. and its affiliate Commerce Insurance Co. over a recent data breach that one of the lawsuits contends may have exposed...

Pulitzer Winner Chabon, Other Authors Sue Meta Over AI Program

Sep 13 2023 // A group of writers including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon sued Meta Platforms in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, accusing the tech giant of misusing their works to train its Llama artificial-intelligence...

Microsoft to Defend Customers on AI Copyright Challenges

Sep 8 2023 // Microsoft will pay legal damages on behalf of customers using its artificial intelligence (AI) products if they are sued for copyright infringement for the output generated by such systems, the company said on...

AI Fused With Trade Data May Finally Smooth Clunky Supply Chains

Sep 5 2023 // The dawn of artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT may revolutionize the way both the public and private sector use data to ferret out risks and opportunities in the $32 trillion global trading system.During the...

Visual Artists Fight Back Against AI Companies for Repurposing Their Work

Sep 1 2023 // Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s words, is “surreal,...

How Aerial Imagery and AI are Helping Florida’s Insurers with Climate Change and Fraud

Aug 25 2023 // Residents of Southeastern states like Florida will be looking ahead to the heart of hurricane season with trepidation. With climate change bringing storms that are wetter, slower and more prone to intensifying rapidly,...

Wisconsin Launches Task Force to Study Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Workforce

Aug 24 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin became the latest state Wednesday to launch a task force to study the effects of artificial intelligence on the workforce, a growing area of concern among state leaders nationwide.Gov. Tony...

Tutoring Firm Settles EEOC’s First Bias Lawsuit Involving AI Software

Aug 11 2023 // A China-based tutoring company has agreed to settle a U.S. government agency’s novel lawsuit claiming it used hiring software powered by artificial intelligence to illegally weed out older job applicants.The 2022...

Connecticut, Other States’ Lawmakers Have a Lot of Questions About AI

Aug 9 2023 // As state lawmakers rush to get a handle on fast-evolving artificial intelligence technology, they`re often focusing first on their own state governments before imposing restrictions on the private sector.Legislators are...

NAIC Releases Highly Anticipated Draft Model Bulletin on Insurers’ AI Use

Jul 28 2023 // On July 17, 2023, the Innovation, Cybersecurity and Technology (H) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released for comment a highly anticipated model bulletin (Model Bulletin) on...

Washington Physicians’ Insurer Issues Notice of Data Privacy Incident

Jul 27 2023 // Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company reported a security incident affecting the personal information for some third-party contractors and the health information for some of its insureds’ patients.“Although we...

SEC Set to Adopt New Cyber Rule, Unveils Brokerage AI Proposal

Jul 26 2023 // Wall Street’s top regulator on Wednesday was poised to adopt new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose hacking incidents, a measure officials said was being taken to help the investing public contend...

Delaware Takes Fight Against IRS Over Captive Insurers’ Data to Supreme Court

Jul 25 2023 // The state of Delaware is going to the Supreme Court in its fight with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the release of information on captive insurers.This fight has placed Delaware’s state regulation of...

Claims Insurtech Tractable AI Raises $65M in Funding Led by SoftBank

Jul 18 2023 // ⁠Tractable, the London-based insurtech that uses artificial intelligence (AI) for visual claims assessments and disaster recovery, announced a $65M Series E investment led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.Existing investors...

HCA Data Leak Affects 11 Million; Class Action Says 9 Million Hit by Dental Insurer Breach

Jul 12 2023 // Nashville-based HCAHealthcare, the largest for-profit operator of hospitals and clinics in the U.S., said that patient information had been leaked to an online forum.The breach leaked data for as many as 11 million...

Artificial Weatherman? AI Could Better Predict Hurricanes, Research Paper Says

Jul 10 2023 // Artificial Intelligence may be the key to more accurate and more timely hurricane predictions, China-based researchers have reported in the scientific journal Nature.In two papers in the journal, the researchers, including...

Law Firms Are Recruiting More AI Experts as Clients Demand ‘More for Less’

Jul 5 2023 // Chatbots, data scientists, software engineers. As clients demand more for less, law firms are hiring growing numbers of staff who’ve studied technology not tort law to try and stand out from their rivals.Law firms...

Is Insurance Recruiting Being Impacted by Artificial Intelligence?

Jul 3 2023 // The movie Terminator 2 is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about artificial intelligence. A universe where machines take over our daily lives seems so distant from my reality. Then I’m reminded that I...

ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Sued for Theft of Private Data in ‘AI Arms Race’

Jun 29 2023 // ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit...

Data for Insurance Discounts? Consumers Say No Thanks

Jun 29 2023 // Newswise — Insurance companies have encouraged consumers to reduce their premiums by using monitoring technology for 25 years now, but consumers have been slow to embrace the idea.First introduced in 1998, the...