The Nippon Life filing is not another story about a chatbot fabricating citations for a lawyer who submitted them to court. It is a story about a chatbot that intervened in a resolved dispute between a private individual and her employer, persuaded her to abandon her legal counsel, and triggered fresh litigation that cost the defendant $300,000 to manage. Nippon Life filed suit in the Northern District of Illinois on March 4, 2026, naming OpenAI as defendant on three theories: tortious interference with contract, abuse of process, and the unlicensed…