Nationwide pet insurance Hambone Award winner announced

December 23, 2021December 21, 2021 Julie Campbell

Pet insurance - Image of German Shephard

The thirteenth annual award went to a dog that survived a 400-foot fall and has fully recovered. Nationwide has announced the winner of the 13th annual Hambone Award, which is given to the animal that brought about the most extraordinary pet insurance claim of the year. The insurer gave this year’s award to a claim that was filed for the care of Bruin, a German Shephard. Bruin’s pet insurance claim resulted from the multiple injuries he sustained when he fell 400 feet into a canyon in California. The community searched…

Cat takes this year’s Nationwide pet insurance weirdest claim prize

November 1, 2019October 31, 2019 Julie Campbell

Nationwide pet insurance - brown tabby cat

The injured animal has become the 2019 winner of the insurer’s annual Hambone Award. Though everybody thinks their own animal stories are weird, Nationwide pet insurance uses its claims and consumer votes to discover whose is the weirdest each year. This year, policyholder Andrea Brannen’s cat, Minnow, took the top prize for weirdest insurance claim. As reported last week on Live Insurance News, the Hambone Award at Nationwide pet insurance is awarded to the dog or cat with the strangest claim in the previous 12 months. The award was named…