I have a 4-year-old French Bulldog, and we previously used Nationwide for her pet insurance. Unfortunately, we just found out they dropped our policy without any reason. I have been looking around for other pet insurance companies but feel frustrated by the pre-existing condition coverage. We signed up for trupanion but they want records of our last 2 years and my pet has a few things in the notes that I think will totally screw us going forward like itchy paws, a hurt pack, and previous GI bugs/UTIs. Has anyone found a good insurance company that will not be so harsh about not covering pre-existing conditions? Thanks in advance for the recommendations!

I guess I should have looked into this sooner, since I got the email from Manypets back at the end of December, but I forgot about it until now when I FINALLY got an email from Odie regarding the new policy which takes effect March 1st. I have been paying $34.12 a month for each of the last 3 years on a Golden Retriever since she was 3 months old with Manypets. $500 deductible and 90% reimbursement and unlimited annual. They say your rates will be the same with Odie as they would have been with Manypets, but the new premium is $50.15 for $500/90% AND I noticed that the annual max is no $20,000 instead of unlimited. I understand rates normally go up each year but this is nearly 50%. I have seen other posts about this so just wondering if you guys are sticking with Odie or finding another company. I still have not received the email regarding the whole policy so there may be more things I find missing. And if you did switch, do you know if the new companies normally waive the waiting period as long as you have had continuous coverage with another company?

I have a 2015 Toyota RAV4 and I still owe 12,000 on the vehicle, Just got it last year. with that being said I was in an accident on 3/6 and their insurance company wants to claim the vehicle as a total loss... my question is what if they don't give me enough to cover the loan? I am pretty stressed because the accident was not my fault at all. it is going to liberty mutual does anyone have any idea?

If this is legal it sure ain't ethical. I'm not often stunned by capitalism and greed but JFC. This is shameful. I feel so f'ed.

I decided to delve into my homeowners policy to understand it in more detail because of a current potential claim. I was amazed that the 30-page document that I had from Allstate didn’t include may details beyond our coverage limits. There were 8 “amendments” listed, but only 2 were included. After chatting with a customer service rep, it appears that the information I need is in the “policy jacket”. Amazingly, I can’t get an electronic copy and have to wait 5-7 business days to get a copy in the mail. So much for paperless.

hey all, I was with nationwide insurance for my 2 young cats for the past 2 years. Never needed to use them but the $50 a month was worth it for me. Yesterday I found out they discontinued the ‘whole pet plan’ policy they were signed up for in my state and did not notify me. They cancelled it end of December with no email/call/correspondence. They created a new policy similar to their original and discontinued the one my cats were on. I went in to double check the illness coverage for their policy because I was about to bring in my sick cat, and that’s how I found out they cancelled his coverage. I spoke to 3 different people and their supervisors for hours and they refused to reinstate their coverage on a different plan until the 2 week waiting period was over, and didn’t take any accountability for their failure to contact me before/during/after they cancelled his coverage. My cat is now entering early heart failure and the testing to diagnose what type will cost over $5,000 to get him into a specialist. He’s only a 5 year old cat with no signs of a heart murmur/heart and liver issues until yesterday. As of now, he’s on various medications to try to stabilize him until he’s healthy enough for an echo exam. I chose Nationwide because they appear to be a reputable insurance company in other regards, but I will never be enrolled with them again in any capacity. I’ve never really written a review on any experience that I’ve had because I feel like everyone has different experiences. PLEASE do not use this company for your pet insurance. I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what my cat is facing and the likelihood he will have to be put to sleep in the coming days. It’s devastating and the fact that there may have been a different outcome if he was able to get all the testing in the world without financial issues is something I’m going to be thinking about forever, which is the reason pet insurance is so vital for any animals we own. There are so many other insurance companies that will do better and care for your pets and nationwide isn’t one of them ♥️

My gf (f21) is currently insuring a 2019 gmc terrain for about $225 a month, however she got her March bill and it has more than tripled to $1200+ dollars for this month. Continuing months will be about $800, she has made one claim about a year and a half ago. My question is, is hasting mutual required to give notice of a premium increase and a reason for such increase?

Today our new 2025 rav4 got rear ended by a driver. It has 5000 miles on it and we just took it to get its first oil change and were given a coupon for free carwashes for a year. Decided to get a wash once we were done. The carwash place is one with a conveyor belt type of thing that brings the car forward. The signs said to go into neutral and let the belt do everything so we did. Suddenly we get banged from the car behind us. The worker at the carwash stopped everything and said multiple times it was the driver behind us at fault. She didn't go into neutral and instead stayed in drive and accelerated, causing her to "jump" the grooves on the belt and hit us. She kept saying she had no idea what happened. Our car isn't seriously damaged from what we can tell, the back bumper will need replacing and above that is dented. The other driver's car was fine, go figure. I did ask the witness/employee at the carwash for his name and if he had footage. He said the corporate office would have it. I do have a front dash cam that doesn't really show much but you can hear a loud boom from the impact. I'm hoping and praying my insurance company can see it wasn't our fault. I know we have to get everything repaired before worrying about a diminished value claim. I'm just wondering how this will all work. We exchanged insurance info and we both have geico. I submitted the claim but how will all this work with trying to get a diminished value claim? Will geico just say no since they're kind of "going against" their own company to try to recoup our loss? Sorry I just don't understand what to do.

First time posting on this sub, and this topic is difficult to search, so sorry in advance if it is redundant. Tried posting a similar thing on greenbuildingadvisor, but they're not much focused on insurance, though did get some good feedback. I just got the latest in a series of substantial increases in our homeowner's insurance premium from AmFam, this time a 42% raise. No claims, ever, and we don't live in a state with hurricanes/fires. This is not me whinging about yearly increases (though it's certainly not my favorite email this week). Our case is somewhat different in that if we were to have a total loss, we would build back much smaller than the current size of our home. So what we would actually need is around 50% less than calculated by AmFam. But AmFam won't give us a quote that represents that goal, they will just go based on their algorithmic calculation of building back as is, 100%. I know we need to maintain at least as much coverage as our outstanding mortgage balance, which right now is about 40% of AmFam's calculated 100% replacement value. So that is our floor, but we would probably be looking at 50% as the level we would want. It has been a challenge to find insurers willing to create policies that insure for less than their calculated as-is replacement cost. One option I found was American Modern, but I got distracted after talking to their agent 6 months ago, and I have read some terrible reviews for them. The recent AmFam increase caused me to be undistracted again. So my question: Does anyone have recommendations for processes or companies that will help achieve my goal of getting a policy with a 50% replacement cost? As an aside: if efficiency and sufficiency are sometimes goals with building (obviously not for everyone), it seems like it should be more straight forward to build back smaller in the case of a total loss, but the insurance part of that equation is really geared toward as big or bigger.

Progressive offered me $750 for diminished value based on costs they incurred for the claim. They did not even consider the actual cash value of the vehicle. For context, this is in Texas and the claim was made on the other parties insurance and I was found at no fault. The car is a brand new BMW M2 and the total repairs estimated around $4-$5k including labor. There’s definitely more than $750 of diminished value since this is a performance car and now has an incident on the car fax. According to the representative, they are not willing to offer more even if I get an estimate of the actual cash value. Do I have any options outside of just accepting what I was given?