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Matthew Sellers

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As seen in: Human Resources Director Australia, Key Media, Daily Report (Georgia), Insurance Business America, Insurance Business UK, Insurance Business Australia, Insurance Business Canada, InvestmentNews, Consumer Watchdog, Insurance Business Asia, Insurance Business Mag, Insurance Business New Zealand and
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Scientists say this year's El Niño could break records, and the models may not be keeping up

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By Matthew Sellers Verified
| Insurance Business Canada
Catastrophe & Flood By Jul 17, 2026 Share A powerful El Niño has developed months ahead of schedule, and multiple climate scientists say it could end up surpassing every previous event on record, according to recent reporting from CBC News and The Economist. For insurers globally, the timing adds new urgency to how catastrophe models account for both near-term weather volatility and longer-term warming trends that current models may be underestimating.
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Is Lloyd's storing up a claims capability problem?

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By Matthew Sellers Verified, Josh Recamara
| Insurance Business UK Verified
Insurance News By Jul 17, 2026 Share The LMA's latest Claims Talent Survey raises an uncomfortable question for every managing agent in Lloyd's: what happens when the people who know how to run a genuinely complicated claim retire faster than the market can grow their replacements? That's no longer a hypothetical. New entrants with under three years' experience now make up 52% of junior roles, up sharply from 37% in 2023 — a jump in just two years.
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Insurance's own worst enemy: the professionals getting paid to train their replacements

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By Matthew Sellers Verified
| Insurance Business UK Verified
Transformation By Jul 15, 2026 Share Somewhere in the insurance industry right now, an underwriter is teaching a machine how to underwrite. An adjuster is teaching it how to settle a claim. An actuary is showing it how to project a loss curve. They are doing this for a contract rate, on their own time, for a company most of their colleagues have never heard of. And when the model gets good enough, the work disappears - which was rather the point of hiring them in the first place.
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