Trupanion’s Deal With The Chewy “Devil”: Veterinary Medicine’s Savior Or Insurance Industry Sellout?
On December 7, 2021, Trupanion, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRUP), the “medical insurance for pets” provider announced a partnership with Chewy, Inc. (NYSE: […]
On December 7, 2021, Trupanion, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRUP), the “medical insurance for pets” provider announced a partnership with Chewy, Inc. (NYSE: […]
In Maine, a state senator and dog lover decided she had waited long enough for pet insurance legislation. When the […]
After six-months of sidelining the Pet Insurance Model Law aimed at protecting consumers – and following what has been an almost three-year drafting process— the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Pet Insurance Working Group will meet again on June 7 to consider proposed changes to the model law. NAIC Consumer Representative Birny Birnbaum, who is also the Executive Director of the Center for Economic Justice, called the proposed changes to the draft “stunning” in an email to TCR last week.
The policy says if condition X occurs during the 365-day pre-existing condition waiting period, it is not eligible. Only “Treatment that occurs AFTER [emphasis TCR’s] the three hundred and sixty five day waiting period” is eligible. Thus, even PPI’s own fine print even seems to indicate that it would not cover conditions that its salespeople told TCR in three different conversations with different representatives it would cover.
And here’s the kicker: PPI’s leaders refused repeated requests to discuss any of our questions over more than two weeks of attempts to get help clarifying the policy language.
The pet insurance industry is reporting today that the total number of insured cats and dogs in the U.S. for […]
Welcome to TCR’s first edition of “Paws and Clauses.” The American Kennel Club is not the entity responsible for the […]
California-based PetDx, owner of OncoK9 – “the liquid biopsy test for dogs -” has announced that there is now science […]
On April 7, Maine Governor Janet T. Mills (D) signed an unlikely piece of legislation: “An Act Regarding Pet Insurance.” […]
Every year during the second week of April, the American Veterinary Medical Association produces National Dog Bite Prevention Week, a […]
Over the past year, USA Today has published twelve stories snowballing from one original story whose underlying premise is that […]