Hospital Lender Says Contractor Lawyers Botched Filings With AI

Lawyers for a contractor of one of Alabama’s largest hospitals should be sanctioned for fabricating case law in court documents, the bankrupt clinic’s lender said, noting that the problems may have been caused by artificial intelligence.

The US Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Alabama found last month that Progressive Perfusion Inc.'s July motion to reconsider two orders denying requests related to vendor status and reimbursements contained “pervasive inaccurate, misleading, and fabricated citations, quotations, and representations of legal authority.”

Progressive, which provides perfusion services used in procedures such as open heart surgery, filed an additional document in August containing ...