The Altria Class Action: A Case Study in Al-Fueled Fraud and Mitigation Strategies

In a recent article for Law.com, ClaimScore Co-Founder and CPO Bryan Heller explains the challenges of programmatic fraud in mass litigation, as highlighted by the Altria/Juul class action. Settlement administrators were inundated for 14.4 million claims -- nearly five times the anticipated volume -- driven by a surge in AI-based fraud.

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Are Your Settlements Being “AI-Washed”?

Rampant, bot-scale fraud on class action settlements has prompted claims administrators to say they use “AI-driven fraud detection." But these “AI washed” services could be masking legacy, manual fraud detection practices or, worse, deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in a way that creates legal and ethical liability for attorneys.

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