Nationwide | Pet Insurance Review

Sadly, our 4 year old golden retriever was diagnosed with Lymphoma. Total vet bill is going to exceed 14K. Nationwide’s annual ceiling limit 5K. Rip off beware of these scammers.

So my dog she is 12 years old now. It was originally VPI "veterinarians pet insurance" when we rescued her at 2 months old. They were great for the very small claims anything under two $300 they will cover me before 40% of it. However 2 years ago she had major surgery which cost $8,700 to remove bladder stones at the animal hospital so it was an emergency. Submit all the claims and all Nationwide covered was $895. Of course I called them several times after that and submitted the paperwork several times however nothing else was done so I bit the bullet cuz I love my dog very much and I paid out of my pocket $7700. Okay so 2 years now she needs her gallbladder removed. And of course the surgery is $7,600 at the animal hospital and again contact Nationwide and $895 again. So even though I have the middle tier I asked them what if I had the best insurance through them which is the higher tier how much would you have covered? $1,900 was the response. I said to them what surgery do you see that cost $1,900. Listen I'll expect them to cover everything of course but even if they were covered half of this I would have found that acceptable. Now at this point I cannot afford this so eventually she is going to die. Of course getting her gallbladder removed we can of course hopefully pray that we get several more years out of her. Even the surgeon and everyone else says they should be covering at least 80%, however so this is why I want to write this review please stay away from Nationwide regardless of what it is pet insurance home insurance car insurance anything from them they are definitely not on your side. You have no idea how upset I am cuz now we're talking about a life over money. I'll leave it at that.

I was happy with nationwide insurance until my dog turned 8 years old. He was promptly dropped. When I called I was told they don’t insure dogs over 8 years old for health and wellness, only accidents. Now anything he had in past is not covered under another pet insurance. This is an awful policy, I’m trying to get the word out so it doesn’t happen to other pet parents. Also if a condition runs in that breed it is not covered.

We’ve had Nationwide Pet Insurance for over 7 yrs and they have been wonder…. Some think expensive, but you get what you pay for.

Worst process ever. I submitted a claim wich they took a very long time to review. According to them the claim was accepted and they said they mailed a check wich was never received. They also state that if they send you a check they have no way to track it. So basically…. They ripped me off and was directed to check with the mail service as it was their fault for losing the check