They overcharge for premums once your dog turns a certain age, forcing you to cancel and then leave you with nothing for your pet. Disgraceful!

Overall, I am extremely unhappy with MetLife Pet Insurance policies and service. The only reason I have stayed on this insurance plan is because if I switch to another provider anything that is currently covered under MetLife policy will be considered pre-existing under a new plan. The insurance model feels like this company exists only for profit without any regard for the wellbeing of people's pets. I am specifically frustrated that my dog's eye condition (pannus) is not covered. Months prior to her diagnosis, I scheduled her for a vet appointment to treat a bite mark and eye redness in one eye. At this appointment, I arbitrarily said the issue started "a couple weeks ago" after playing with another dog - I had waited until the policy started to schedule this appointment because this was our first time at a vet being insured. During this appointment, they could not determine why my dog's eye was irritated, other than speculating that it was a play injury. She was also treated for a bite at this appointment. Within a week of this appointment, the eye redness went away without treatment. While at first covered, MetLife later retracted coverage after my dog saw a specialist for eye redness in both eyes (months later), citing the initial appointment as proof that the issue began before policy coverage. I appealed the decision, got a doctor from the clinic of the first appointment to sign off that there was no evidence that the issue treated during that first appointment was chronic or pre-existing, nor necessarily related to the chronic condition my dog later developed well into the policy. My appeal was rejected, though I never received a letter in the mail and now it is far too late to re-appeal. Now, nothing related to her eye condition is covered, while I still pay over $100/month for her pet insurance. Because of this, I cannot afford to treat her eye condition and she may suffer permanent eye damage. I feel like we were completely taken advantage of, and roped into a pet insurance plan that is not best for us. More recently, I called customer service with an estimate to have a small lump on my dog's side biopsied. Based on MetLife policy, the customer service representative cannot even say definitively whether or not this biopsy will be covered, despite it being years into my policy. While I don't blame the representative, it is extremely frustrating that it is the plain policy of MetLife Pet Insurance to never give pre-approvals for coverage. In this same call, I requested some information on yearly rates and how they expect them to change from year to year - the representative could provide no information on this either. In addition to these problems, in my experience MetLife takes far longer than their 5-10 guarantee to process claims, doesn't update their system properly (my claims from the eye issues still say "processing"), and the system is glitchy and slow. I strongly advise against choosing MetLife to insure your pets - the

At first I sent in a bill I paid and they denied it because it wasn’t itemized… so I asked the vet for a bill that was itemized and when i received it , I sent in the itemized bill and nationwide is still denying the claim with no explanation. What’s going on?

Good insurance so far, only problem is claims take a very long time. Sometimes up to 3 weeks to process.

It’s all just bluff u have you pay more for premium and they all your vet bills go to ur deductible there are so many better options then fetch try other insurance companies

Overall, I am extremely unhappy with MetLife Pet Insurance policies and service. The only reason I have stayed on this insurance plan is because if I switch to another provider anything that is currently covered under MetLife policy will be considered pre-existing under a new plan. The insurance model feels like this company exists only for profit without any regard for the wellbeing of people's pets. I am specifically frustrated that my dog's eye condition (pannus) is not covered. Months prior to her diagnosis, I scheduled her for a vet appointment to treat a bite mark and eye redness in one eye. At this appointment, I arbitrarily said the issue started "a couple weeks ago” after playing with another dog - I had waited until the policy started to schedule this appointment because this was our first time at a vet being insured. During this appointment, they could not determine why my dog’s eye was irritated, other than speculating that it was a play injury. She was also treated for a bite at this appointment. Within a week of this appointment, the eye redness went away without treatment. While at first covered, MetLife later retracted coverage after my dog saw a specialist for eye redness in both eyes, citing the initial appointment as proof that the issue began before policy coverage. I appealed the decision, got a doctor from the clinic of the first appointment to sign off that there was no evidence that the issue treated during that first appointment was chronic or pre-existing, nor necessarily related to the chronic condition my dog later developed well into the policy. My appeal was rejected, though I never received a letter in the mail and now it is far too late to re-appeal. Now, nothing related to her eye condition is covered, while I still pay over $100/month for her pet insurance. Because of this, I cannot afford to treat her eye condition and she may suffer permanent eye damage. I feel like we were completely taken advantage of, and roped into a pet insurance plan that is not best for us. More recently, I called customer service with an estimate to have a lump on my dog’s side biopsied. Based on MetLife policy, the customer service representative cannot even say definitively whether or not this biopsy will be covered. While I don’t blame the representative, it is extremely frustrating that is the plain policy of MetLife Pet Insurance to never give pre-approvals for coverage. I strongly advise against choosing MetLife to insure your pets - they are sharks that have backwards priorities, despite what their representatives tell you. For my next pet, I will be choosing a different provider.

We have been with MetLife for four years now and this year both of my premiums jumped ~$20 for each of my girls. The customer service rep couldn't give me a good answer as to why. I ended up canceling our younger girl's policy and going with another company. I had to keep our other policy because unfortunately we are going through chemo at the moment. With chemo, we are asked to do a follow up CBC on week after each treatment, and after every single CBC, the claim is denied and I'm back on the phone with a rep trying to get them to reprocess the claim when it's clearly stated in the chemo POST note to follow up in a week with a CBC. This current go around, I've been hanging in limbo with MetLife over a claim for two weeks now and no one can seem to resolve the issue. At this point, my policy has renewed and I'm afraid the claim will go towards my current policy. If you are reading this and considering MetLife, please be prepared for ridiculous price hikes with no notice when your policy renews, a non-working app, customer service reps who are unable to help with getting claims processed correctly, and absolutely no communication/continuity of care when it comes to picking up where your previous call left off so you have to start from scratch each time you call about the same issue. Please consider going another route with your pet insurance. We've loved MetLife until this year. I'm not sure what's happened.

I have been a faithful customer of Healthy Paws singing their praises since 2017, starting at $50 a month for a 2 yr old dog. Each year they raised my premium until it is now $183 a month, even though I only filed a couple of small claims each year and they do not cover vet exam fees. Now all of a sudden they increased my rate to $467 a month which is a 255% rate increase. When questioning customer service why, it was obvious they no longer cared about me. I was told to do $1000 deductible at 50% reimbursement, but my premium would still be almost double what I am paying now and with a $1000 deductible I would never be able to use the insurance. NOT ACCEPTABLE! They claim it is because vets have raised their prices so much in California that the company is not sustainable. Strange because my two vets have not raised their rates for over 4 years and if that were the case why are other insurance companies charging a lot less? Wouldn't they not be sustainable either if that were the facts? My online research shows they had to pay out approximately $4.6M to customers for a class action suit they lost a few years ago in another state. Could this be the reason? I faithfully paid all my premiums for eight years on time and hardly filed any claims. Now I am forced to shop for insurance with pre-existing conditions like allergies or arthiritis which is totally unfair business practice. Be aware! They could get rid of you too, by raising your premium exhorbitantly when your dog reaches a certain age. Read ALL the reviews before signing up because it appears I am not alone.

Do not trust their reviews.

These reviews make no sense. Why do you ask to review an insurance product when the only thing you can review is the purchase process which always goes well? Most of the reviews on this site were only written at the very beginning. It is almost useless to use this. Of note, the reviews on Google are good but not as flattering as this site. This practice reflects badly both on the sponsor company as well as this review site.