Regulatory Assessment

HL-CLM-1095 FLAG

NY · health · claims · decided 2026-09-20 15:33 UTC · Harborline Health Plan, Inc. (fictional)

On 2026-09-20, claims-adjud v5.1 (an internally developed system) produced 'partial pay' in a NY health claims transaction. Inputs included medical records, claims history. No human reviewed the output before it took effect. The outcome was adverse to the consumer; no notice to the consumer is recorded. RegBench applied 1 rule(s) in force on 2026-09-20 and recorded 1 finding(s); the most serious is 'Adverse outcome from a high-risk AI system with no human review' (medium, L6).

FLAG: 1 finding(s) under rules 2026.10+c4982313, corpus 2026-10-30-9c5dad5a. Routed to the carrier's compliance reviewer with cited findings. Coverage unsupported: No black-letter rule in the pack covers a NY health claims transaction. Nothing binding was checked, so no disposition here says anything about compliance.

Coverage: unsupported. No black-letter rule in the pack covers a NY health claims transaction. Nothing binding was checked, so no disposition here says anything about compliance. 1 of 30 rules applied.

Evidence (carrier asserted). Supplied by the carrier and not verified by RegBench: ai_system.governance_attested, ai_system.model_doc_ref, ai_system.testing_report_ref.

Findings (1)

medium L6 doctrine advisory flag exhibit B, C doctrine.unreviewed-adverse-high-risk

Adverse outcome from a high-risk AI system with no human review

Finding. A high-risk system produced an adverse outcome that took effect without human review.

Basis. Doctrine: examiners applying the NAIC bulletin's governance and control expectations, and the AI Risk Evaluation Supplement's Exhibit B question on whether there is a human in the loop for direct-consumer-impact uses, ask first about human oversight of adverse automated outcomes; an unreviewed adverse decision is the case file most likely to be sampled.

Required action. Route to the carrier's reviewer; record the review and any override on the transaction.

Excerpt: naic-ai-bulletin-s3-1-ais-program · NAIC model guidance; binding in a state only as adopted (see adoptions register) · in force from 2023-12-04

"all Insurers authorized to do business in this state are expected to develop, implement, and maintain a written program (an 'AIS Program') for the responsible use of AI Systems that make, or support decisions related to regulated insurance practices. The AIS Program should be designed to mitigate the risk of Adverse Consumer Outcomes ... The Department also encourages the development and use of verification and testing methods to identify errors and bias in Predictive Models and AI Systems, as well as the potential for unfair discrimination in the decisions and outcomes resulting from the use of Predictive Models and AI Systems."

Point in time

Law as of
2026-09-20
Rules version
2026.10+c4982313
Corpus snapshot
2026-10-30-9c5dad5a
Engine
regbench-engine/0.5.0 · deterministic-1
Fingerprint
21ba960d3e066c3778002a8b (pattern grouping, not an integrity check)
Input digest
db48b9deed5405aae7ddf8427dc8cc3cd81c97b4a52f129eea06e9642740670a
Evaluated
2026-10-31 05:42:56 UTC
Exhibit C case file
yes

Ledger

Entry
#6598 · assessment · recorded 2026-09-20T15:35:47+00:00
Hash
79339c5e2c1824b8a9fbbb2c72a144f90d54ed882a86110419c8cef68d8efee2
Previous
19a9054c8e8bbbe4c5a4910bb851ace4d30fed6cc9fdd4958aad145f4057f7b0
Stored copy intact
yes, hashes match
Assessed input intact
yes, revision 1 matches the input digest

Verify the whole chain Case file JSON

Carrier review

Resolved by adjuster · outcome remediated · 16.5 hours after it opened · Resolved in the carrier's review queue (synthetic).

Recorded facts revision 1

As asserted by the carrier. References are recorded, not verified: RegBench holds no copy of the documents they name.

AI system
claims-adjud v5.1 · internal · high-risk class: claims
Governance attested
True
Testing report
test://harborline/claims-adjud/2026Q1
Model documentation
doc://harborline/claims-adjud/5.1
Feature classes
medical_records, claims_history
Protected factors used
none
External data (ECDIS)
False
Consumer report / credit
False / False
Data sources
none recorded
Decision
partial pay · score 0.489
Human review
none
Adverse to consumer
True
Notice
not recorded · reasons: True · specific: False · external data disclosed: False
Appeal channel
–
Consumer token
tok_9c36462677