Hylant’s Timmel Joins Safety National to Lead Cyber Insurance Development

Spencer Timmel, has joined Safety National as national director of Cyber and Technology. In his new capacity with Safety National. Timmel will be responsible for leading Safety National’s effort to become a provider of cyber liability and other related coverage.

Timmel has nearly 20 years of experience in the industry and a decade of cyber-related experience in the areas of risk identification and modeling, breach preparedness, coverage analysis and claims advocacy. He worked at Ohio-based broker Hylant Group for the past almost nine years, and since 2016 as vice president for Cyber Security and Privacy Liability. Prior to being at Hylant, he worked as an underwriter at Chubb and, before that, at Cincinnati Financial.

Safety National said it expects to launch its cyber liability offerings in the second quarter of 2017.

Safety National is a member of the Tokio Marine Group.