Tag: pet health insurance

Pet insurance company expands annual veterinary awards

G. Turner
Pet Insurance

Petplan has announced that it is now receiving nominations and that it has added an additional category. Millions of people who have cats, dogs, and other animals as a part of their families know the importance of finding the best veterinarian – along with an incredible support team – and one pet insurance company is continuing its annual veterinary awards this year in order to recognize those outstanding individuals. These awards honor not only the best veterinarians, but also the professionals who provide the rest of the care and support.…

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Pet insurance remains unpopular despite rising vet costs

Julie Campbell
Pet Insurance

The expense associated with companion animals health care is growing, but many owners don’t buy coverage. It wasn’t very long ago that veterinary costs were quite affordable and pet insurance was relatively unnecessary, as the health care that was provided to animals was relatively limited and somewhat low-tech. Times have rapidly been changing and the cost of providing health care to animals has been skyrocketing. As a growing number of people consider their animal companions to be nothing less than furry family members and expect them to be able to…

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Pet insurance is among the most popular American worker benefits

Julie Campbell
Pet Insurance

A growing number of businesses are now subsidizing and discounting the cost of the coverage for their employees. The trend for companies to offer their workers pet insurance as a part of their benefits packages is a growing one, as people increasingly feel that their animal companions are members of the family. Businesses across the country are working to make themselves more attractive to talented workers. One in three Fortune 500 companies offers plans from Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI), the oldest and largest animal health insurer in the United States.…

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Pet insurance is among the most rapidly growing benefits for workers

Julie Campbell
Pet Insurance

New research is revealing that this is one of the latest and most popular added perks offered to employees. Along with the strengthening of the American economy comes a boost to the benefits packages that employers are offering their workers, and among the most rapidly growing trends at the moment is the inclusion of pet insurance in the mix. This is a leading voluntary benefit in terms of growth and the trend doesn’t appear to be slowing. Among Fortune 500 companies, one in every three is currently offering pet insurance…

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Pet insurance company Pethealth to acquire parts of PurinaCare’s assets

H. Cutner
Things to consider when searching for pet insurance

  Some of the latter company’s coverage operations have been purchased through this agreement. Pethealth Inc. has just announced that its PTZ Insurance agency subsidiary has now entered into an acquisition agreement with Nestle Purina Claims Processing, Inc. and its PurinaCare services in order to purchase some of its pet insurance operations. The acquisition covers the Purinacare Insurance Services, Inc. operations in terms of certain operations. Those operations are specific to the administration of the pet insurance program at Purina, and the ownership of the rights to the renewals of…

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