Paws & Clauses Pet Insurance Fine Print
Trupanion CEO talks loss ratios in exclusive interview
Trupanion remains the only company I’ve covered whose founder and CEO will engage reporters on this level. Next week, TCR […]
Vets Beware: Pawlicy Advisor’s Marketing Strategy is YOU
Veterinary professionals are underpaid, overworked, and in short supply. So, a reliable website where veterinarians can direct their demanding clients […]
TCR talks pet insurance on podcast
From The Chatfield Show YouTube Page: “In this episode, our hosts (Dr. Jen the vet and Dr. Jason Chatfield) sit […]
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 […]
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 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.
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 […]
Petplan, Dodo officially withdraw veterinary professional “moral hazard” filing
In July, The Canine Review reported that Petplan which had recently partnered with Group Nine Media and rebranded itself as […]
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 […]
12 Months for Nationwide, 30 Days in Maine; Significant regulatory overhaul looming for American pet insurance
In Maine, a state senator and dog lover decided she had waited long enough for pet insurance legislation. When the […]
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.