Not to my knowledge. That being said, I can’t recall many Lich enemies early on when you start a new character.

I'm having the exact same problem in Telesubi Ruins, I haven't fought any other Lich's recently so I can't confirm if it's happening with all of them. I've tested several abilities as well but I haven't been able to narrow the cause down to a specific one but I'm not a warden so it's not a problem unique to arctic blast.

It's the last world boss I need to defeat and then I've cleared all Daggerfall locations so it's really annoying having that one location unfinished.

Though it's probably more annoying for the guy I was fighting them with, there was someone else trying to clear Telesubi as well and I kept freezing and having to restart leaving him to fight alone.

Keep posting. They've known about this for over a month probably and have done nothing. Won't even contact anyone. There are dozens if not hundreds of players from what I figure having this issue.

Still happening, after another patch. Please fix this, it’s freezing basically vs any Lich enemy. Even Dolmen’s are impossible

I also have the lich freeze issue, every lich every time, everywhere. Crypt of hearts II lichboss, nope, frozen. Telesubi with two lichbosses, frozen. Random vampire/lich spawns in the wilderness, frozen. In my case, I have a dragonknight tank and a dragonknight magica dps who both freeze within the first second or two of combat every time. My nightblade stamina dps however, not affected at all. That character is entirely immune to whatever this lich thing is. I take that character to the same bosses, no problem at all. This has been happening since the Greymore launch.

For me the game is freezing during an anchor fight, in Graht wood against two dremora bosses, as a sorcerer it happen when i launch the storm atronach.

Edit 9/21:
From patch notes

Fixed an issue where engaging in combat with some Lich monsters could cause your game to lock up or crash.