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The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce concluded that contract law and negligence under English common law can resolve most AI liability disputes—without new legislation—contrasting sharply with EU and US state approaches.
A UK court issued a practice ban against a lawyer who submitted AI-hallucinated case citations, the first such disciplinary ruling in England and Wales — establishing that attorneys bear full professional responsibility for AI-generated content.
OpenAI filed to dismiss a federal lawsuit by Nippon Life alleging ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed attorney — the first major judicial test of AI developer liability for downstream professional legal use.
State regulators have approved over 80% of insurer requests to exclude AI-related damages from general liability policies, already effective in Florida, Connecticut, and Maryland. A new standalone AI liability market with $2M–$50M limits is emerging to fill the gap.
A U.S. federal judge ruled that supervising partners are personally liable for AI-generated errors in court filings by their teams — extending sanctions exposure up the law firm hierarchy for the first time.
FTC inquiries, state AG investigations, and diverging state laws are creating compounding liability exposure for companies deploying AI chatbots — and the rules are being written in real time.
Alston & Bird's April 2026 AI Quarterly finds courts issuing consequential AI rulings without a coherent framework, including a privilege-destroying ruling for law firms using commercial AI tools.