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Oh that's bad news [emoji45]...brace yourselves when it comes to renewal time - they've partnered up with Petplan. I did a quote a couple for Jeremy of weeks ago and it was £86.50 a year. Today I did another quote and it's gone up to £162...
http://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/petplan-partners-with-pets-at-home/ Makes it sound as if PAH are pulling out of pet insurance and are just directing customers to petplan. It does make me worry that pet insurance is going to become unaffordable for many bunny owners.
http://www.vettimes.co.uk/news/petplan-partners-with-pets-at-home/ Makes it sound as if PAH are pulling out of pet insurance and are just directing customers to petplan. It does make me worry that pet insurance is going to become unaffordable for many bunny owners.
I'm cancelling my insurance with them as it went up so much. Genuinely tempted to get an emergency credit card for bunny vet bills instead, the premiums are a nightmare now.
I'm pretty sure that Exotics direct used to do some kind of collective policy where you had a combined maximum for the year rather than for each individual animal. No idea whether they still do that though, but if they do, that might be a viable alternative for someone with several buns (although obviously won't be much use for those with pre-existing conditions)
...brace yourselves when it comes to renewal time - they've partnered up with Petplan. I did a quote a couple for Jeremy of weeks ago and it was £86.50 a year. Today I did another quote and it's gone up to £162...
I found exotic direct to be very good. They do exclude conditions once they have paid out for them in a year though.
Interestingly enough, I've just done a quote for a < 1 year old rabbit and with Pets at Home website he came back at £162, from the Petplan website he came back as £153.48... looks like you are paying for your 'free' £10 P@H voucher
I don't know if I'm not understand this properly but I don't get the point of insurance if this is the case, surely if a condition is recurring that's when the bills start to get out of hand and that's when insurance is most important? (I may have misinterpreted you post though...)
It's fairly standard for policies to pay out for a condition for a year and then it goes on the list of excluded conditions. Some have 'lifetime' policies which will continue to pay for ongoing conditions for life. These usually have an upper limit of claims value per year.
I don't know if I'm not understand this properly but I don't get the point of insurance if this is the case, surely if a condition is recurring that's when the bills start to get out of hand and that's when insurance is most important? (I may have misinterpreted you post though...)
When I insured with them (a while ago) they weren't these 'lifetime policies" and did exclude a condition once you had claimed. That suited me at the time
That's why I said 'once they have paid out for them in a year' - They may have changed their policy status now?
Yeah, I completely misunderstood the 'paid out for them in a year' to mean during the year of cover not by the end of the year of cover. I gambled with Artie on his first insurance policy and went with annual and that's when we got £1k back for kidney stones/surgery. I didn't need it the second year as one kidney was removed so there was nothing else they could do if it recurred anyway. That insurance is better than nothing but I would always go for lifetime now, especially with a younger animal.