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I really enjoyed writing this week’s Five Favorites for Friday post. It brought me down the nostalgia trail all the way back to my days defending insurance companies against LTD claims and then routed me back to the future with stories about the latest class action theories against plan fiduciaries and the future of benefit…
A few years ago, I wrote that the history of legal tech made me believe that the incorporation of AI into legal work would not drive down the costs of legal work or decrease the amount of it needed by clients. Instead, the increased horsepower from incorporating AI into legal work would simply increase the…
It’s hard to prevent AI from becoming the theme of any end of the week roundup of the news, and that is true here as well to some extent, particularly with regard to the potential risks that AI poses for employers who offer benefit plans. However, I have managed to sneak in some stories about…
We are having a blizzard in Boston today. It started around 3 in the morning and is expected to continue for much of the day. I thought I would take a break from snowblowing to finally finish my top ten countdown of my blog and LinkedIn posts of 2025. I had originally targeted the end…
Wow – what an embarrassment of riches this week. Partly because of developments in AI and the law, partly because of regulatory and litigation developments in ERISA and partly because the insurance world never stops spinning, there is a metaphorical feast of articles and the like that I could discuss in this week’s edition of…
I continue to push through the last few in my countdown of my Top Ten posts on this blog in 2025, having now reached the number three post. Number three is actually one of my favorites. It raises the question of when, exactly, AI claims processing is proper and when, instead, it will prove to…
And their off! The old racing call seems like a good fit for the first week of a new business year, as everything and everyone that was put to the side for the last two weeks of December comes racing back onto the desktop.
And so it has been as well with articles, blog posts…
Are you old enough to remember Soviet figure skating judges in the Winter Olympics? They used to be accused all the time of putting their thumb on the scale, lowering the allegedly “objective” scoring for American skaters so as to get the results they wanted. If you recall, I reserved the same right this year…