Tuesday, December 27, 2022

You can’t just flip a switch and expect technology to handle the rest.

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/southcentral/2022/12/27/314427.htm

Law Firm that Touted Technology Accused of Fraud, Hits Blockade in La. Courtroom

Zach Moseley says his law firm has invested millions of dollars in technology to serve more clients. During a video interview with a social media consultant, he said McClenny Moseley & Associates hopes to represent 50,000 policyholders with claims caused by the hurricanes that struck the state in 2020 and 2021.

The “resistance” that Moseley mentioned is coming from US District Judge James D. Cain Jr. in Lake Charles, Louisiana. During a hearing in Cain’s courtroom on Dec. 13, attorneys for other law firms presented evidence that McClenny Moseley filed duplicate lawsuits, filed lawsuits on behalf of clients that the firm didn’t represent, claimed hurricane damage to properties that were nowhere near the path of a hurricane, sued carriers that did not insure the property, and perhaps most importantly, forged signatures on insurer settlement checks.

One attorney accused the law firm of “criminal fraud.”

I’ve heard some stuff about y’all,” Cain said, according to a transcript of the hearing. “‘We’re a technology firm. We’ve got all this artificial intelligence.’ Let me tell you something. It may be artificial but it’s certainly not intelligent. This is not how you represent people. You need to meet with these people individually.”





Is this the same as declaring them acts of war?

https://www.bespacific.com/the-chief-executive-of-one-of-europes-biggest-insurance-companies-has-warned-that-cyber-attacks-rather-than-natural-catastrophes-will-become-uninsurable/

Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’

FT.com $ – “The chief executive of one of Europe’s biggest insurance companies has warned that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become “uninsurable” as the disruption from hacks continues to grow. Insurance executives have been increasingly vocal in recent years about systemic risks, such as pandemics and climate change, that test the sector’s ability to provide coverage. For the second year in a row, natural catastrophe-related claims are expected to top $100bn. But Mario Greco, chief executive at insurer Zurich, told the Financial Times that cyber was the risk to watch…”





Just because…

https://www.ksl.com/article/50543309/hardy-boys-and-more-here-are-23-notable-creative-works-entering-the-public-domain-in-2023

Hardy Boys and more: Here are 23 notable creative works entering the public domain in 2023





Tools & Techniques. Something for my next statistics class…

https://www.bespacific.com/rtutor-talk-to-your-data-via-ai/

RTutor – Talk to your data via AI

RTutor uses OpenAI’s powerful text-davinci-003 language model to translate natural language into R code, which is then excuted. You can request your analysis, just like asking a real person. Upload a data file (CSV, TSV/tab-delimited text files, and Excel) and just analyze it in plain English. Your results can be downloaded as an HTML report in minutes! NO WARRANTY! Some of the scripts run but yield incorrect result. Please use the auto-generated code as a starting point for further refinement and validation. OpenAI’s models are accessed via API, which is not free. Please do not abuse it. Otherwise, this service might disappear.”


 

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