Don’t trust Nationwide pet insurance! They’ll screw you over and tell you to be more positive about it

Edit for clarity: Nationwide cancels insurance on 100,000 pets, says you can re-enroll them in other plans, but refuses to cover their (now) pre-existing conditions

I have a bird insured under nationwide, or I did. Nationwide was the only place to insure birds. I signed him up within the first year of his life so anything that came up would always be covered. Silly me. New business model is for Nationwide to cancel your policy every 5-10yrs and force you into a new one that won’t take your “preexisting conditions”.

They have billions of dollars (profits recently were $60.3 billion or something like that) and I’ve been paying them while my bird has been healthy as an investment. But now he’s started to have something that will count as a pre-con if I try to renew after they cancelled my existing plan. They’ve decided we can’t be grand-fathered in after paying them for YEARS to prevent this very scenario.

When I was on a call trying to find my options, and was upset to hear they were forcing me to terminate my existing plan and a new one would not cover anything “preexisting”, the lady on the phone chided me for making the conversation less positive.
And many people have it so much worse with much older pets that now won’t be covered at all.

We trusted Nationwide and were screwed over. Absolutely Deplorable. Reprehensible. You can’t buy trust and Nationwide just opted to lose it for 100,000+ pets/people. What a stupid business move. 🤬