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I don't think they meant the nurse would be responsible. The LLC would and should be fucked in that case.

Whether the company employs a human nurse or an AI, the company and not a human is indeed considered the responsible party.

The LLC might be fucked but it is not a flesh-and-blood person. There is no person responsible. Just a legal entity.

So nothing is changed. I think we're in agreement?

Do you think there's no difference in material outcomes when a company faces consequences of a specific human nurse being negligent vs an AI hallucinating?

And I think the apprehension can be summed with “good luck with that”

I could've sworn that malpractice insurance cost is viewed as one of the driver's of high health care costs, and that it's expensive precisely because medical lawsuit payouts are large...

Insurance and HMO CEOs salaries come from somewhere, and it’s not malpractice judgments.

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