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

Hospitals, airlines and governments hit by Microsoft outage as employee risk warnings mount

Sheriff's offices, courts, state agencies and hospitals lost email as the Microsoft 365 failure ran past 12 hours. The bigger risk for insurers may be what staff did to keep working

Sticky inflation puts a half-point Fed jump in play - and car insurance is part of the problem

A third straight 0.3% core CPI reading is forcing carriers, brokers and investment books to reprice their assumptions

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 splurge the most per animal

Skyward turns away cheap E&S property as its fee engine picks up the slack

Rivals writing business on reckless terms aren’t long for the market says Robinson

Corgi expands product lines - wants to target broker distribution

Josh LaRiccia spent two decades in underwriting and launched an MGA. Three weeks into his new job at an insurtech carrier, he is hoping that Corgi’s quickest route to Main Street runs through the middlemen it once bypassed

Binance’s $6.3bn hack began with a fake job offer, and it had no cyber cover

The exchange’s incident report traces a five-month North Korean campaign that used fake recruiters and tampered developer tools

Delaware Life back in focus as Walter looks at Cadillac F1

A $3 billion asking price for a team still waiting on its first point says more about the pressure on Walter’s annuity carriers than about racing

Liberty Mutual leads UN insurance backstop that pays for aid before disasters hit

Gallagher Re has placed a $40m cover that kicks in when forecasts of several crises at once threaten to drain the UN’s early-action fund, and a London-based, UK-funded centre helped design it