Crosby wants malpractice insurance for its AI lawyers, not just its human ones

The New York legal startup plans to insure its AI agents directly, a move that could reshape how autonomous legal work is regulated Lawyers carry malpractice insurance as a matter of routine. Crosby, a New York-based AI-native law firm, now wants its software to carry it too. The firm announced in late July 2026 that it plans to secure professional liability insurance for its artificial intelligence agents. That puts it on a path toward legal work that needs far less human supervision than the industry has been willing to accept so far. Founder and CEO Ryan Daniels made the announcement on LinkedIn. The plan is to insure the AI agents almost as if they were autonomous professionals, rather than treating them as tools a lawyer happens to use. How Crosby works today For now, humans still sit at the end of every assembly line. Crosby employs somewhere between 45 and 60 licensed attorneys, and they review every legal output the AI produces. That output is mostly contracts. Think non-disclosure agreements and master services agreements, the paperwork every growing company signs by the stack and nobody enjoys reading. The AI agents handle the bulk of the contract review. The lawyers act ...