Can Vet-Centric Trupanion Continue to Deliver? High-Flying Insurance Maverick Hits Headwinds
Last month, vet-centric pet insurer Trupanion told shareholders they could expect as much as a twenty percent drop in member […]
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Pet insurer Embrace sues TCR and regulators to keep marketing tactics secret
Embrace filed a motion today to preclude TCR from obtaining records we requested from the Washington Office of the […]
Pets Best loses underwriter and partner Trupanion; will now be underwritten by Independence Pet Group-owned IAIC
Citing untenable capital reserve requirements by regulators, Trupanion CEO and founder Darryl Rawlings revealed this month at the company’s fourth […]
Pets Best to change underwriters says current underwriter and Trupanion CEO, explaining it’s “not capital efficient”
Last week, Trupanion (NASDAQ: TRUP), which, in addition to the core subscription product bearing its namesake also underwrites Pets Best, […]
Lemonade announces buzzy alliance with Chewy–Trupanion’s original partner
“The moment that [Chewy] would offer another insurance carrier, we could talk to other pet retailers,” Rawlings told TCR, declining to name companies, although he did note that Trupanion “turned down Walmart.”
“We didn’t think that Walmart could help grow the category,” Rawlings added. Trupanion’s point of view, he says, is that ‘Chewy was going to come to the marketplace no matter what,’ describing Chewy as if he were describing stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Independence Pet Group (IPG) completes M&A, becoming third leading pet insurer behind Trupanion, Nationwide with 600k+ pets
Independence Pet Group (IPG) has completed the deal first announced in June 2022, becoming the third leading pet insurer behind […]
Regulators move forward with new reporting requirements for pet insurers
Regulators are moving forward with a draft of new reporting requirements for pet insurance carriers. This Wednesday, when the Market […]
Regulators adopt first significant legislation for fast-growing pet insurance industry. Now, states must decide.
Regulators gathering at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Summer National Meeting voted to adopt the Pet Insurance Model […]
Pet Insurance Model Law up for full vote at upcoming regulator meeting — again
The Pet Insurance Model Law, now three-years-in-the-making, was put to a vote today by Working Group charged with producing it, […]
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: […]