Matthew Sellers

Matthew Sellers

Insurance Business

Matthew Sellers

Journalist

7 years experience1,453,598 Total views on Insurance Business in 2025

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Cyber Insurance Macroeconomics Market Analysis

Matthew Sellers is a financial journalist at Insurance Business, bringing an Economics degree and a sharp analytical instinct to his coverage of the insurance market. His work spans the hard news that moves the industry — from catastrophe events and cyber threats to inflation, litigation, marine risk, and the macroeconomic pressures bearing down on insurers, brokers, and their clients.

Matthew tracks the regulatory developments, market shifts, and emerging risks that insurance professionals need to understand — translating complex signals into clear, accessible reporting for the brokers, underwriters, and industry leaders who need to know where the market is heading, and why.

Read the latest stories by Matthew

Microsoft outage: when will Outlook be back, and what the clock means for cover
Microsoft has a patch that seems to be holding, but no restoration time. For insurers and brokers, the length of this outage is starting to matter in its own right
Microsoft outage: when will Outlook be back, and what the clock means for cover
Wrong inbox, £4.5m question: injured insurance executive sues law firm over lost Tui claim
Slater and Gordon admits it botched service of the claim form after a coconut palm crushed a holidaymaker’s legs in Sri Lanka. The fight now is over what that mistake actually cost, and whose insurance picks up the bill
Wrong inbox, £4.5m question: injured insurance executive sues law firm over lost Tui claim
Bomb alert at Calais-Fréthun disrupts Eurostar services
Trains held at a northern French station while authorities carry out checks, the latest in a run of bomb scares across Europe
Bomb alert at Calais-Fréthun disrupts Eurostar services
Intact to run European specialty business from London via new UK branch
The former RSA will fold its UK and continental specialty books into one European business and plans a regulated London branch from January
Intact to run European specialty business from London via new UK branch
Europe's protest wave forces insurers to rethink riot cover
Lower limits, fatter deductibles and outright exclusions in hotspot areas as the market stops treating civil unrest as a sideshow
Europe's protest wave forces insurers to rethink riot cover
Which countries love their pets the most? Follow the money (and the insurance policies)
Sweden insures its pets like family, Americans outspend the world and Australians splash out the most per animal. For insurers, the gap between love and cover is the opening
Which countries love their pets the most? Follow the money (and the insurance policies)
Samsung Fire brings in KKR and Korea's wealth fund to take Canopius fully in-house
Korea's biggest non-life insurer is buying out the Centerbridge-led consortium for a reported $2.2bn (around £1.6bn), with KKR and Korea's sovereign wealth fund as co-buyers
Samsung Fire brings in KKR and Korea's wealth fund to take Canopius fully in-house
Brussels sues IBM, Atos and Leonardo over border system behind summer’s airport queues
Still smarting from this summer’s huge waits in Europe? The EU’s IT agency is taking the companies that built the Entry/Exit System to court
Brussels sues IBM, Atos and Leonardo over border system behind summer’s airport queues
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