Chewy Partners with Trupanion to offer Pet Insurance and Wellness Plans

December 19, 2021

Chewy, a leading E-commerce retailer of pet products, supplies and prescriptions recently ANNOUNCED a new partnership with pet insurance provider Trupanion, Inc (Trupanion insures more than 600,000 dogs and cats throughout the United States, Canada and Australia) to offer an exclusive suite of pet health insurance and wellness plans to more than 20 million Chewy customers. The insurance will be sold under the Chewy Health brand that includes wellness products beginning in Spring 2022 according to the INSURANCE JOURNAL.

Chewy will also use Trupanion’s software which enable claims to be paid directly to the animal hospital, thus reducing out-of-pocket expenses for pet owners and increases access to care.

According to the North American Pet Health Insurance Association (NAPHIA), there are more than 3.1 million dogs and cats insured in the United States in 2020 (representing less than 3% of all pets).

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