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Pie Insurance Approved to Acquire Western Select Insurance Company

Pie Insurance (“Pie”), an insurtech company specializing in workers’ comp insurance for small businesses, today announced that Pie Carrier Holdings has received regulatory approval from the Illinois Department of Insurance to acquire Western Select Insurance Company, a property-casualty the insurance company that is licensed in Illinois, California, and New York, from a subsidiary of Premia Holdings Ltd. The proposed acquisition represents an important step by Pie Carrier Holdings, a subsidiary of Pie, formed in May 2020, to execute Pie’s strategy of becoming a full-stack insurance carrier.

Upon the closing of the proposed acquisition, Western Select Insurance Company will be renamed Pie Casualty Insurance Company.

“Since Pie was founded in 2017, our goal has been to offer the entire small business insurance experience to our customers as a full-stack insurance carrier,” said John Swigart, co-founder and CEO of Pie. “Receiving regulatory approval to acquire Western Select Insurance Company is a key milestone on the path for Pie to write our own policies, and to bring our seamless commercial insurance experience to even more small businesses across the country.”

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