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Emily Brill

About Emily Brill

https://thecaninereview.com

Emily Brill is the executive editor and founder of The Canine Review. The Canine Review is a subscription-only, independent online news service whose readers include thousands of veterinary professionals, pet industry leaders, journalists, and dog fanatics. As the pet industry’s only independent watchdog news service not beholden to advertisers, TCR provides much-needed accountability and greater transparency for this fast-growing, dynamic sub-sector of the economy which, until TCR, had not yet faced frequent and high-impact checks on its powerful institutions and stakeholders. A native New Yorker, Emily grew up in a media startup world and preferred newsrooms to playgrounds and classrooms. She has worked everywhere from Fox News Channel during its early days with Shepard Smith to Charlie Rose to CNN to CBS News’s Beijing Bureau (she lived and freelanced in Beijing for two years). Before founding TCR, her reporting as a freelancer was published in The New York Times’s China edition, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, Chinafile.com, The South China Morning Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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VIN moral hazard reporting recycled

VIN News Recycles TCR’s ‘Moral Hazard Vets’ Insurance Reporting

It is a common practice in professional journalism that even competing news organizations credit each other as a matter of professional courtesy –unless one feels threatened by the other. In a three-part series of reports starting July 7, 2022, TCR offered coverage of Fetch By The Dodo (best known as Petplan but rebranded in light of its partnership with viral video animal blog The Dodo). The story was about its attempt to cut vet professionals out of coverage by declaring them a “moral hazard.” This led to our broader coverage of the issue at hand–the story VIN News has recycled and published one year later this week since our first story.

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Trupanion press release contradicted company’s own presentation to shareholders earlier in June

“I’m amazed by the Board’s silence, especially given your tweet last night showing the information on NY shared in the shareholder meeting on June 8 vs the press release on June 22. What I find most amazing – the June 22 press release specifically states that the NY price increase was NOT included in the company’s financial guidance,” he said, referring to company guidance provided to investors on May 4 for the full year which he said did not include projections for NY or CA rate filings. “How could it not be included in guidance if they classified the state as approved on June 8? I’ve been an early stage investor for years. This is not how financial projections are built,” he added. 

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Trupanion Press Release Claim of NY Rate Hike ‘Approval’ Not True, Regulator Says

It’s taking a little bit of liberty. It’s a bit of an exaggeration on their part….It’s more that they just submitted these rates to us, and we are aware of them.” – NYDFS official

NYDFS: NY ‘Approval’ Claim Not True

“The department does not technically have the authority to approve [pet insurance rates]… These rates are just submitted to us. We do not have the authority to review them prior to publishing,” an official at New York’s Department of Financial Services told TCR.

When asked if Trupanion’s statement about NYDFS approving an 18% rate increase was accurate, the official said, “It’s taking a little bit of liberty. It’s a bit of an exaggeration on their part….It’s more that they just submitted these rates to us, and we are aware of them.”

By email, the official confirmed, “the Department still retains the authority to object to aspects of the rate filing,” she wrote, referring to Trupanion’s filing.

TCR has included redacted written exchanges with New York DFS et al. after the conclusion of our reporting.

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