Policy

May 25, 2022

AKC Pet Insurance/PPI promises “most comprehensive” pre-existing condition coverage, but CEO declines repeated requests to discuss policy

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.

April 4, 2022

USA Today writes another hit job on Seresto; ‘investigative’ report fails to seek comment; vets continue to be ignored

Just over a year ago, on March 2, 2021, USA Today, whose parent company Gannett became America’s largest newspaper publisher when it merged with Gatehouse in 2019, printed a thinly sourced story declaring one of America’s most popular pet products, Seresto flea and tick collars, to be killer collars. The story was castigated by veterinarians and other health professionals — including board-certified veterinary toxicologists we interviewed.

March 29, 2022

FDA announces injunction barring New Jersey raw pet food firm from operating

The FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine announced on Monday that New Jersey-based raw pet food manufacturer Bravo Packing, Inc., agreed to a court order barring the company from operating until further notice.

February 15, 2022

As more dogs die, pea lobbyists muzzle FDA; FDA continues information blackout of often fatal heart condition tied to dogs’ diets; in new statement, FDA says hundreds of dogs’ cases ‘not relevant’

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January 28, 2022

Veterinarians, owners angered by farm lobby muzzling of FDA canine heart data as cases rise. Biden admin transparency?

No individual at the FDA or at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has yet provided any basis for refusing to release canine DCM quantity of reports received, and it has now been more than eighteen months since the FDA last provided such data, saying then that it had received “1100 + reports of canine DCM between January 1, 2014 and July 31, 2020.”

January 24, 2022

Insurance regulators offer new explanation for disappeared pet insurance law; consumer rep dings regulators on transparency

There is still no explanation for the abrupt removal of the Pet Insurance Model Law from the agenda of the […]

Pet Insurance Model Law Dropped Canine Review

January 21, 2022

Insurance regulators continue to sideline pet insurance model law aimed at protecting consumers

The Canine Review learned late yesterday that state insurance regulators on the Property and Casualty Committee of the National Association […]

January 14, 2022

FDA continues to stonewall vets and dog owners on canine DCM data. Did farm lobby get senators to muzzle regulators?

One reason for the atypical FDA resistance could be because in 2020 Dr. Solomon, the FDA CVM director, made what he apparently believed was a private vow to the pet food industry not to issue any more updates about DCM in dogs following pressure that was applied by a group of farm state senate Republicans (and Democrat Jon Tester of the farm state of Montana) in a letter to then FDA Commissioner Hahn.

January 13, 2022

Veterinarians, owners demand FDA action and transparency amid more diagnoses of DCM in dogs thought to be linked to diet

“I’m angry, my vet is angry. I’ve been angry…”
“I wish I had the confidence to believe [the FDA is] taking this seriously and working diligently to get to the bottom of the issue….”
“The FDA’s tepid warnings regarding DCM were insufficient to warn me and the hundreds of thousands of other dog owners whose dogs are now dying…”

December 17, 2021

Pet insurance regulation delayed again, without explanation – updated

Update: On December 24, TCR again reached out to Chairman Beatty for an update. Mr. Beatty advised that he knew nothing beyond what Mr. Birnbaum had released days ago, which was that the delay was related to licensing. NAPHIA’s Kristen Lynch did not respond. An NAIC spokesman also did not respond.

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