Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Amtrust North America o/b/o Justin McGinness v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
·Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division·US-STATEFineprovisional
On 2026-03-27, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division affirmed in part, remanded for dismissal without prejudice, and imposed a $1,000 personal sanction on appellate counsel. Counsel submitted an appellate brief with The appellate brief cited four fabricated insurance cases that resembled real reporter citations but did not exist.
- Court
- Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division
- Date
- 2026-03-27
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff's merits brief cited four cases that do not exist, and counsel failed to retract them after defendants identified the problem.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$1,000
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Amtrust North America o/b/o Justin McGinness v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company”, safelegalai.com/tracker/amtrust-north-america-o-b-o-justin-mcginness-v-liberty-mutual-insurance-company (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.