Ohio-based Great American Insurance has promoted Kirk Bull to divisional president of the company's custom division and Mark Lonneman to divisional president of its specialty E&S division.

Mr Bull has served as divisional senior vice president of Great American custom’s casualty operations since 2004. Prior to joining Great American in 1992, he was a senior casualty underwriter for the Los Angeles division of Cigna E&S.

Mr Lonneman has served as divisional senior vice president of Great American custom’s specialty E&S office in Cincinnati since 2000. He joined Great American’s agricultural excess and surplus insurance in 1980 as a casualty underwriter, and has held various roles of increasing responsibility in Great American’s home office underwriting department, and in its former commercial and specialty operating divisions.

Great American Insurance deals in property and casualty insurance, focusing on specialty commercial products for businesses, and in the sale of traditional fixed, indexed and variable annuities and a variety of supplemental insurance products.