Jason Cohen Promoted to Divisional Executive Vice President of the Great American Insurance Group

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Great American Insurance Group is pleased to announce the promotion of Jason Cohen to Divisional Executive Vice President of its Specialty Property and Casualty Strategic Comp Division. Mr. Cohen joined Great American in 2006 and has been with the Strategic Comp Division since 2008. Over the past five years, he has held positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of underwriting, marketing, account management, and product development and has served as part of the Division’s management team.

Mr. Cohen holds a BA in History from Harvard and a JD from Stanford University.

About Great American’s Strategic Comp Division

Great American’s Strategic Comp Division specializes in aggregate deductible workers compensation insurance. For over 20 years, Strategic Comp’s unique deductible structure combined with its customized loss control programs and its low case-load field-based adjusting model have dramatically reduced both losses and workers’ compensation expense for its policyholders. Strategic Comp’s workers’ compensation policies are underwritten by the following insurers of Great American Insurance Group: Great American Alliance Insurance Company, Great American Assurance Company and Great American Insurance Company of New York. All underwriting insurers are rated “A” (Excellent) (Class XIV) by A.M. Best (rating affirmed March 29, 2012).

About Great American Insurance Group

Great American Insurance Group’s roots go back to 1872 with the founding of its flagship company, Great American Insurance Company. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the operations of Great American Insurance Group are engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance, focusing on specialty commercial products for businesses, and in the sale of traditional fixed and fixed-indexed annuities. Great American Insurance Company has received an “A” (Excellent) or higher rating from the A.M. Best Company for over 100 years (most recent rating evaluation effective March 29, 2012). The members of the Great American Insurance Group are subsidiaries of American Financial Group, Inc. (AFG), also based in Cincinnati, Ohio. AFG’s common stock is listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol AFG.