My dog is 10 years old (small mix 21 lbs) and we have had fetch insurance for 10 years. The premium increases yearly have been high, but this year it is ludacris. I just got an email that my premium will be increased from 1500 to 3000 this year!!! She has been pretty much a healthy dog except this past year she needed dental extractions. ideally, I wouldn’t want to change companies since she is an older age, but I cannot be paying $3000 a year. I have been looking for possibly switching insurances however, my concern is now that she is older and has had teeth removed—Is this considered a pre-existing condition? Sidenote, interestingly enough, I requested a brand new quote through fetch and they quoted $150 per month with the same coverage. Hmmm. Does anybody have recommendations for pet insurance plans?

I have had embrace for 10 years on my dog and cage and have had claims and have a 90% Reimbursement Rate they are awesome . Over the years rate increase were always as expected .I just got my Renewal and it sky rocketed from $220 a month to $340! Any one else experiencing a dramatic rate increase?

TL;DR: Employer canceled insurance benefits without notice while on FMLA due to nonpayment, despite efforts to pay. Hi, there. I’m currently on a medical leave of absence from work, and have been experiencing some difficulties with my FMLA/insurance benefits. I’m new to this, so any input would be appreciated! My leave began the last week of December and I’m set to return on 3/24, the last day of my FMLA protection. Since my leave started, my main priority was getting my insurance premiums taken care of so as not to lose my benefits, especially since I’ve racked up substantial medical bills over the course of my leave. I reached out to my benefits department, and was instructed to reach out to a third party (WEX) to make payment, which I did. WEX informed me that there was no balance due reflected on their end, and to reach back out to benefits. This back and forth has gone on for months now. At one point, they told me to reach out to BCBS to make payment, and BCBS acted like they had no idea why I was directed to them in the first place. I’m over 10 weeks into my leave, and have not received a single correspondence about my health insurance until today. Not a phone call, email, or letter. I did, however, receive a bill from WEX for my vision and dental coverage, but nothing whatsoever in regard to my medical coverage. Once I received the dental/vision bill, I called same day to make payment and was told, again, that there was nothing in the system to apply payment towards. Reached out to my benefits department again, and they said they could see the unpaid premium for my dental/vision. Called WEX again, and after escalating and speaking with a supervisor, was told that the reason why I was unable to pay my dental/vision is because the plans had been cancelled due to nonpayment. When I reiterated several times that I’ve been trying to pay for quite some time by that point, I was told that if I mailed the payment ASAP, there is a “strong possibility” they might reinstate the plans. I mailed the check the following morning, and am hoping it works out in my favor. What I’m most concerned about, though, is my health insurance. I spoke to someone in our benefits department in February, and was told that because I’d exhausted my PTO the first half of January, my insurance premium would have been deducted from one of those paychecks. According to the representative with whom I spoke, “January was covered.” I told him I’d received bills for my dental/vision coverage, but still hadn’t received anything for my health insurance. He told me to just wait a little bit longer for it to show up in the mail. Over 10 weeks later of non stop calling and trying to stay on top of things, and I still haven’t gotten anything. I expressed that due to the nature of my leave, I really needed to keep my insurance coverage, and was terrified the third party was going to cancel my policy for nonpayment. He reassured me that the only one able to cancel my insurance would be my employer, and they would “of course” provide me with ample notice prior to that. When I told him it didn’t make sense that I’d receive bills for my dental/vision but not my health insurance, he told me to not worry because my health insurance will remain as is regardless. That my account would just go in a rears and my employer would deduct the unpaid premiums accrued during my leave from my future paychecks once I’m back to work. A supervisor from benefits called me today (10 weeks after my initial call), letting me know that the reason why WEX didn’t have my balance due in their system was because my health insurance was cancelled on 1/28. When I told her that I’ve been calling for help for months now, and continue to get the runaround, she just kept saying it was my responsibility to cover my premiums while on FMLA. When I told her that benefits told me no one would cancel my health insurance without notification, she disregarded it. Same when I mentioned the rep telling me that my account would just go in a rears and they’d deduct the premiums from future paychecks. She told me that I owed for January, February, and March, and that there is a 10-day grace period where I can get caught back up to “hopefully” have my coverage reinstated, but couldn’t be for certain. I checked my last paycheck from January, and the deductions are reflected on it. I’m just very confused because she was adamant I owed for January still too. I just don’t see how they can cancel my insurance: 1. Without notice, and 2. After I’ve made an effort to get it paid since the very beginning of my leave. Someone had mentioned this being problematic because of potential FMLA violations, but I’ve never gone through this before and I’m honestly unsure of the process, and obviously don’t feel comfortable reaching out to my employer given the misinformation I’ve received thus far. Our market is experiencing mass layoffs right now, and I was hesitant to go on leave in the first place because of it. I don’t know if it’s worth mentioning or not, but the day before my leave was set to begin, thought to call Alight just to make sure I was not going to be reprimanded for not coming in. The representative informed me that my LOA request had been cancelled. This gave me pause, as the only ones who knew about the LOA request was my immediate supervisor and Alight. I’d have been no call, no show and subsequently terminated had I not thought to call beforehand. I’ve just been worried so much about all of this, and honestly regret taking the medical leave even though it was necessary. I’ve spent more time going back and forth with my employer than I have with my physicians and it’s been hell. Does anyone have any input regarding this situation? Is this just an HR issue and nothing more or should I consider seeking legal counsel? Thanks so much ❤️

I asked the Doc to send a simple urine sample to Quest. My insurance covers 100% labs with Quest. Today I see on my Florida Blue Cross account they sent it to a different lab and my portion is $3170. What to do?

State Farm raised my insurance from $180 a month to $340 over the span of 6 months. Very little and random explanations. My car is 10 years old, it’s insane. P.s. anyone know of good and not stupid expensive insurance in Los Angeles?

It’s a long story but I’ll try to shorten it. I’m not 100% sure how insurance works. My car is under my name but my insurance is shared with my parents. My parents have a few other family members included (me, one sister that is 25, an uncle, an aunt). But my Toyota Corolla 2017 is under my name, automatic payments under my own bank account, etc. I guess my parents own the whole insurance policy but the car is under my name. My bill in December 2024 was raised to $400 (NOT full coverage) They won’t give a clear answer as to why they raised my bill so high. But I let it slide. I saw it as a consequence to our current economy. In february they charged me $825. No clear answer. They gave me unreasonable excuses such as being under 25 (I’m 28), or someone else under the policy is under 25 (no one is under 25). Someone that USED to be on it was under 25 but they got their own insurance under a different company over a year ago. But they used that person as an excuse either way. We even sent proof that they are no longer with State Farm and for how long but that wasn’t enough. We dispute it. They compromised and said I won’t have to pay my “$400 bill” for March. Technically half of $824 isn’t $400 so in the end they won an extra $25 from me. Today they told me I still owe $200 this month and $200 next month. That they’re splitting the $425 between March and April. PLUS they randomly began charging my 25 yr old sister an extra $26 AND used the name of the person who was under 25 on that bill (again, that person has not been with us or state farm for over a year). Does anyone have any idea what’s going on? We’ve never been late on payments, we paid off our cars, we never fight them when they raise our bill (except for this time because $825 a month is excessive). My last accident was in 2022, it was not my fault, I never filed a claim or asked for money to fix my car, I asked for info about my options 2 years after the fact (in 2024) but it was too late to do anything about it anyway. I’m planning to cancel my policy with State Farm but I’m still curious about what is happening here.

Windshield had some severed cracks that started to spider out and had to be fully replaced/recalibrated. Before having it fixed, I filed a claim with my insurance company (progressive). My claim was denied as I hadn’t yet met my comprehensive deductible and didn’t have glass coverage at the time. I added the glass coverage a couple weeks after the claim was denied to make sure I’m covered in future events. I finally saved up enough to have the windshield replaced and recalibrated just this week. My question: Is the amount I paid out of pocket for this replacement eligible to go towards my comprehensive deductible for any future issues? My biggest concern is that I just don’t want it to look like I’m trying to commit insurance fraud by submitting a second claim for the same thing after just adding the glass coverage. Appreciate any help.

I adopted my kitten in 2018, which is when I also signed up for Healthy Paws. The monthly premiums started at $24.57 and went up reasonably every year so it's now $43.17, but I just got a notice that premiums are doubling to $86.60 in 2 months. I see there are many reports of insane increases, esp. in CA where I am, so I don't know if that's why or if it's bc she hit 7 years, but I thought I'd check - is $86 reasonable for her age? The policy has been 90% w/$250 deductible. She's been pretty healthy w/only annual check-ups, so I was thinking I could change to 80% w/$500 to make it more reasonable.

Good morning/afternoon/evening lovely humans. You read the title right, and the only reason I found out was because I'm currently getting my Property and Casualty license myself. I had my life before, and called them out on some shady shit, described below. My apartment with my (21f) and my (now ex) fiancé (23m) was broken into on October 13th, 2024. I'll refrain from details to protect my ex's identity, as well as my own, though this is still my main account. But, a very important detail is he is currently deployed, so I've been handling all of this by myself. I will admit I had to wait until around October 23rd to file the claim, since I had to do a thorough inventory of what was stolen (of both mine and my ex's, as he is unable to help due to deployment). A lot of stuff I still don't know if it was stolen or not, as full boxes of my stuff was nabbed, and I have no way of knowing what was in them as it's been a very long time since I packed them. So, submitted my claim on 10/23/24. Was told on the claim submission screen that I would be contacted in 1-3 business days. Seemed like standard procedure, so I thought nothing of it. Waited. And waited. And got sick, and waited some more. As a matter of fact, my life insurance licensing test was during said waiting period, as I didn't hear anything from Assurant for a WHOLE MONTH. I ended up reaching out to them, threatening to report them for malpractice to my state's Insurance Commissioner if they didn't start taking their job seriously. The first recorded day I have of them contacting me is on DECEMBER 3RD, 2024. So almost a month and a half after I had submitted my claim. After I got into contact with my claim adjuster (we'll call him P to protect his identity) things started moving pretty smoothly, or so I thought. P was responsive, answering my questions and making sure the payout would go to me to handle, as my ex is unable to really help due to his current situation. However, a lot of the gear he left in our apartment was stolen, meaning it had to be on the claim, along with prices for each item. We supplied them with the full CIF NSN list, with prices listen for each item he was issued... which Assurant proceeded to not use, despite adamantly requesting it. At this time, I should also mention I was dealing with chronic tonsillitis, and only got my tonsils finally removed on Feb 5th, and could barely swallow, talk, or really do anything due to how bad it was. I feel 10x better now that they're gone, but being ill was making it harder to remember to do things for the claim. That being said. I was still checking in and asking how Pedro was coming along, to which I was consistently being told that I had to "re-email" things since they "didn't show up". Which I can almost guarantee is BS, since emails are 2 way and I still have all of the info I sent to Assurant, all of which is perfectly legible. However, out of the blue, on January 15th, my claim was transferred to someone else, we'll call him K. K was... A good person at heart, I'll say. However, man was he LAZY. He refused to request his own copy of our police report, which as far as I'm aware, should be illegal, as that opens up the doors for fraud, which I made known to him repeatedly. Even still he wanted me to send it instead of him just requesting it from the police department himself. Keep in mind, January 15th. I had to request a new copy of the police report myself, as I was sent the wrong one when I originally requested the document (and not like to police department did anything about it, even though I repeatedly tried. They hung up on me every time). So I texted K back on the 29th when I received the document (FINALLY). He got back to me on Feb 3rd, stating he'd been out sick. Totally cool, I get it. I had sent it over email, as requested, and again there were "issues" with the document. Even though I could open it just fine through the email. I even sent it multiple times, all of which had "issues". As this was butting up to my tonsillectomy, I had to make K aware I'd be out on recovery. He got back to me on the 11th, giving me a call. I responded the best on day 6 of recovery (those who have had a tonsillectomy know how painful the scab process is), but it was just to let me know my claim had been processed and I was FINALLY getting paid. I had 6 months to claim the money, and as I had to close my bank account due to some financial troubles, I only just this past weekend was able to start the process to get the check. I'll have it by Wednesday, March 12th at the latest. But now here comes the nitty gritty. According to the Property and Casualty Insurance Provisions, "\[The\] payment to the insured or a person legally entitled to receive payment within 60 days of receiving the insured's proof of loss". Unfortunately that's just ExamFX's wording, and I don't know what the official source document is, so I turn to Reddit to help! What would be my next steps, if I were to report Assurant for malpractice? I think K is in the clear, personally, as from the time he was handed to report until payout was within 60 days. But P and Assurant as a whole should be reported for malpractice, at least in my opinion. My inbox is open for any questions, though I will not answer anything personal. I'll also respond to comments as I can. Thank you all in advance! UPDATE: I have reported them to my state's Insurance Dept. I will continue to update as I recieve new information.

I’m looking for a new dentist and almost every dentist I calls either is out of network for Anthem or isn’t accepting new patients. I have an HSA account so I have the funds to cover any fees that I might need to pay currently but I’m unsure moving forward if I should just drop my dental insurance and just move to a dentist that I like? I need some crown work currently so I could get that work done before dropping insurance but otherwise I just need regular cleanings and an occasional filling here and there.