Employment law
Dismissed by a machine.
The only quantified civil judgment in our dataset concerns a dismissal. The amount: EUR 53,766.
A Spanish court ruled against a company following an automated decision affecting an employee, in a file combining biometric identification and human resources management. To date it is the only civil amount known in our dataset.
Another case, in Italy, describes a system that sent an automatic dismissal notice after a worker had died. No amount is known. The damage there is described as reputational, for the family and for the public.
Three files out of seventeen thus fall under the employment relationship. It is the second line in the dataset, level with regulatory — ahead of product liability, ahead of property damage.
These cases share one trait: the absence of recourse. False positives with no right of appeal, automatic deactivation, a notice sent without a human reading it. The loss does not come from the machine's error, but from the fact that no process was there to catch it.
This is why we refuse to insure decisions bearing on people for as long as the law remains unsettled. Turning a segment away is what makes the rest credible.
Source: European Agentic AI Loss Database, compiled by Garenzia from the public OECD AIM screening and the AI Incident Database.