Pets Best | Pet Insurance Review

I am so happy with the service & fast turn around of claims that Pets Best has provided! When my oldest dog needed a splenectomy several weeks ago, I was so relieved that I had a Pets Best policy to reimburse the expense of his surgery. Boz's outcome may have not gone as well if I didn't have this policy to rely on. I faxed the claim on a Thursday evening and received my reimbursement check in the mail on the following Wednesday! I am a veterinary technician who works in the ER of a specialty hospital & I see so many pets that do not get the care that they need because their owners can't afford it. I highly recommend Pets Best to our clients & my coworkers every chance I get. Thank you!

We have a a Golden Retriever named Macey who until March of 2009 was rock-solid healthy. During the summer of 2008 our daughter's dog who was insured with Pets Best became very ill and the insurance plan paid off big time. Our daughter advised us based upon her experience to insure our dogs with Pets Best and we are glad we did. In March of 2009 Macey was diagnoised with IMHA a type of anemia which can be deadly. We caught it in time. Pet's Best allowed us to save our dog because they paid $7,500 on a premium of $350 paid the summer before. Had we not had the insurance we would have had to put the dog down. I am only sorry that we did not go for the higher level of coverage which would have been about $10.000. As of today 11-4-09 Macey is in full recovery.

Our 7-year-old Golden Retriever suddenly became sick the first part of October. We had to take her to an emergency pet hospital, our vet, and also to a critical care/internal medicine vet. Needless to say, the costs kept rising. We wanted to do everything we could to help our Golden. But they finally found out she had somehow gotten liver disease and we had to put her down. Pets Best customer service was very helpful and kind and took care of all claims in an extremely efficient manner. We thank them and will be sure to recommend them to anyone with a pet they care about and we have already recommended Pets Best to our friends.

I am saddened to say that I have experienced a couple of disappointing customer service interactions with Pets Best. For the past 2-3 years, we have insured two of our family dogs with this company. A 5 year old Jack Russell and a 12 year old collie. As expected, our 12 year old collie has been experiencing arthritic symptoms. Pets Best has denied claims that they felt were related to this diagnosis. They stated that his diagnosis was pre-existing before implementation of the policy, when it wasn't. Recently, I had decided to discontinue service with this company, because of claims being submitted and not being covered as expected. On Friday, 09 Oct 09, I decided to call them to see if I could continue the policy and make a premium payment (as recommended by them via an email message). I was told that that policy had expired; so I established a new policy. On Saturday, 10 Oct 09, our collie's arthritic symptoms worsened, so we took him in for a veterinarian appointment. We have now been informed that his condition isn't related to arthitis, but requires a neurology consultation. This afternoon, I spoke with two female representatives from Pets Best and provided them with the information that we had received. They informed me that regardless of when his neurology appointment is scheduled and the diagnosis received, his condition will not be covered; because he was experiencing symptoms before the 14-day coverage period. This is disappointing because, after years of being a customer, I didn't feel that they had our pet's best interest at heart. It seemed to be a "just business" interaction. What happened to their motto, "We care about you and your pet"?

I just wanted to make a comment to thank everyone at Pets Best for the wonderful customer service I have received since I began my policy for my 2 pups back in January. I am living on a limited income being an employee at one of the few still standing mortgage companies and having no pay increase in 2 years. My dogs are my pride and joy and recently have experienced a few different types of unexpected illnesses. Knowing that I have the security that Pets Best will help with covering those medical bills has been such a huge relief. I had a few people suggest that I give up my dogs to save money but I am sure as you know working at a company that supports an animals well being these “dogs” are my children not just disposable pets. Anyhow I really just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart because I have dealt with other companies that do not come close to your turn times and expertise not to mention you guys actually CARE! Thank you again!!!