A federal court has ordered UnitedHealth to hand over two years of records on nH Predict, the AI tool at the center of a Medicare Advantage coverage-denial lawsuit — while explicitly declining to decide, at this stage, whether the tool made the decisions plaintiffs allege it made. This note examines what a discovery order of this breadth can and cannot establish, and why the same structural gap runs through comparable disputes involving other insurers.

A tool already cited as a textbook case of a flawed evidentiary architecture is, weeks later, named by a government as one of the instruments of a cyberattack against its own agencies. This note carefully distinguishes what Taiwan has confirmed from what the private research that surfaced the case advances separately, then examines what this reversal of roles changes — and above all does not change — for the party subjected to the attack.