Michael Shashoua @mediashash

on site for @_diginsurance at #ITIUSA2026 today.

Illinois insurers will have to present actuarial evidence to get rate increases approved, under new bills the state legislature has sent to @GovPritzker, as Beth Swanson of @TheZebraCo explained. bit.ly/3SgmIHR #insurance #regulation #Illinois #DigitalInsuranceNews

@BreadFinancial terrible customer service. can't reach a person with any common sense.

While Donald Trump is getting dissed by American artists such as Milli Vanilli and Brett Michaels, President Claudia Sheinbaum is welcoming U2 to Mexico to talk about what a real president does with their power. Universal healthcare and raising the minimum wage. Love it!!

In December, President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged over a 90-second video that restated existing law. My lawyer's advice was straightforward: go quiet. Keep your head down. This will blow over. But in this administration, the reality is that keeping your head down does not keep you safe. Staying quiet when power comes after you does not make the threat go away. It just teaches the people making the threat that it works. When a president can call for the arrest and execution of a sitting senator for quoting the law, and the expected response is silence, that's a problem that goes way beyond me. That affects every American who works in government, every journalist, every ordinary citizen who might speak up. A grand jury of ordinary Americans looked at this situation and said no. They understood what was at stake, and I think most Americans do. We refuse to accept that this is the new normal. This moment isn't really about me. When the administration is willing to go after a senator this way, it sends a message to every American who might speak up. That should concern people in both parties.

11 candidates are running for commissioner of the California Department of Insurance @CDInews in the primary election tomorrow, Tuesday, June 2. Seven of the candidates answered 14 questions in all for a four-part series covering the state’s insurance crisis, AI, rate increases and climate change. bit.ly/4eeg4KJ #California #CaliforniaElections #affordability #insurance #insurtech #AI #climatechange #regulation #DigitalInsuranceNews

LIKE this post if you think Donald Trump is the worst president in American history — a walking dumpster fire of corruption who betrayed his oath, divided the country for profit, ripped healthcare away, and turned the White House into a family grift operation.

The next commissioner of @CDInews faces an insurance market in a continued, severe crisis. Climate and the viability of home insurance are big causes to be addressed. Candidates @BenAllenCA @goKeithDavis @merrittfarren @JaneKim @StacyKorsgaden @lalovargas4ca and Patrick Wolff weighed in. bit.ly/43nXpG5 #California #CaliforniaElections #ClimateChange #wildfires #insurance #insuranceRisk #regulation #DigitalInsuranceNews

Commercial insurers and their clients must watch out for cyberattacks that are more potent because of AI technology, warns Ryan Kratz of MSIG. bit.ly/4nR8h9b #insurance #AI #cybersecurity #insurtech #DigitalInsuranceNews

Candidates for commissioner of @CDINews share how they would balance insurers’ profitability with affordability for policyholders. Seven of the 11 candidates running in the June 2 primary weighed in: @BenAllenCA @goKeithDavis @merrittfarren @JaneKim @SKorsgaden @lalovargas4ca and Patrick Wolff. bit.ly/4upIV4J #California #CaliforniaElections #affordability #insurance #regulation #DigitalInsuranceNews

I have nothing to say about the man politically, but one time I called his office on a work related issue, and the person who answered the phone on the second ring was none other than Barney Frank. No call screening receptionist, no auto attendant, just the Congressman himself taking calls.

I think my retirement plan should have been storming the Capitol on Jan 6th, and collect my payout from Trump! I served 5 years in State Prison for selling sugar to a Fed.

On June 2, California will choose the top two candidates for insurance commissioner. Seven of the candidates – @BenAllenCA @goKeithDavis @merrittfarren @JaneKim @StacyKorsgaden @lalovargas4ca and Patrick Wolff – spoke about insurers’ use of AI, in the second of our four-part series this week. bit.ly/4eUhqeD #California #CaliforniaElections #AI #insurance #insurtech #regulation #DigitalInsuranceNews

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

Weekend Update: Sarah Sherman Reflects on Season 51 - SNL youtu.be/G_zWpHlTbsE?si… via @YouTube I can see why this got cut, but even a sub-par Sarah Sherman bit would have been better than all that time Weekend Update spent on that "On Blast" character.

After this Thursday’s show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful, and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his regime. Farewell, and thank you, Stephen. robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-and…

@def_leppar20044 U2, 2018, Nassau Coliseum, general admission in the front. Bono spilled water on us! ...

On June 2, California voters will choose the top two candidates for insurance commissioner from a field of 11. Seven of the candidates – @BenAllenCA @goKeithDavis @merrittfarren @JaneKim @SKorsgaden @lalovargas4ca and Patrick Wolff – spoke about the state’s insurance market and regulatory issues in the first of our four-part series this week. bit.ly/43nXpG5 #California #CaliforniaElections #USElections #PropertyCasualty #insurance #regulation #DigitalInsuranceNews

Georgia’s primary election is Tuesday, May 19. 3 Democratic candidates for @GA_DOI - incl. @aj4georgia @keisha_waites - spoke about regulating rate increases, AI's impact on insurance and using climate change data, in our 3-part series. bit.ly/4wuDeng #Georgia #GeorgiaElection #insurance #PropertyCasualty #AI #regulation #USElections #DigitalInsuranceNews

Certain elements of aerial and satellite imagery tend to confuse AI damage assessments for claims, according to David Heathcote, head of intelligence at @McKenzie_Int. bit.ly/4dPZHUA #AI #AerialImagery #insurance #insurtech #DigitalInsuranceNews