Pet Insurance Working Group Puts Financial Data Reporting Requirements on Agenda
Pet Insurance Working Group Puts Transparency on Agenda with Consideration of Data Reporting Requirements
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Ahead of FDA pet food event, some hyperbole, drama, and misinformation
*This story has been updated. Tomorrow afternoon, the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) will host a much-anticipated listening session […]
Exclusive: FDA CVM responds to TCR questions following Midwestern warning letter
Editor’s Note Last week, TCR posed detailed questions to FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) Director Dr. Steven Solomon following […]
Pet Insurance Legislation Unexpectedly Delayed — Again
“We’ve been working like dogs,” Pet Insurance Model Law working group chairman Donald C. Beatty told his group of state […]
Secret sauce? Target again refuses to name the ‘expert’ veterinarians involved with new in-house pet food brand Kindful — or even name the manufacturer
After a series of email exchanges with officials at Target (TGT) over several days including executive vice president Katie Boylan regarding the Minneapolis, MN-based company’s just-launched pet food brand Kindful, company spokesman Konnor Schmaltz told TCR late Monday that the company would decline to name any veterinarian who was involved in any capacity with the research and development of Kindful, which includes 50 dry dog and cat dry foods, canned foods, meal toppers, and treats. The company also refused to name the entity responsible for manufacturing the food.
High-brow pet insurer launches breakaway, “fluff-free,” low-cost product; first of several launches in Trupanion’s 60-month plan
America’s second-largest pet insurance provider Trupanion, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRUP) has just launched a “time-limited,” low-cost pet insurance brand in Canada, PHI Direct, which will launch in the United States later this year, along with a third insurance product at a medium price point, Furkin. But unless you follow insurance closely or read TCR, you may never know that Trupanion is the parent company.
Elanco CEO Simmons comes out, guns blazing, for Seresto collars
One product, not surprisingly, dominated the hour: Seresto flea and tick collars. We clocked CEO Simmons at 4 minutes 30 seconds into the earnings presentation when he first said “Seresto”:
San Francisco SPCA files free speech lawsuit against California Vet Board for restricting vet use of telemedicine
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sued the California Veterinary Medical Board earlier this week, […]
Petplan’s Plunge: One of America’s largest pet insurance companies struggles amid VC-mandated cutbacks, insurtech IT woes
Petplan’s Plunge: As rivals thrive in pandemic puppy economy, Petplan struggles amid VC-mandated cutbacks, IT insurtech woes Juliane Holz of […]
Trupanion announces sweeping 60-month plan, change to mission statement, Furkin
It’s a new era for Trupanion, America’s second-largest provider of pet health insurance. The Seattle-based, self-underwritten insurance provider [keen to […]