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Pet insurance ‐ a delicate balancing act?
Author(s) -
King Neal
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.21.9.536
Subject(s) - balance (ability) , business , health insurance , point (geometry) , actuarial science , key person insurance , insurance policy , law , medicine , health care , political science , physical therapy , mathematics , geometry
THE five major providers of pet insurance over the past couple of decades have recently been joined by a large number of new entrants to the marketplace. With the everincreasing number of companies involved in pet insurance, changes are inevitable in the balance between client, veterinary surgeon and insurance company. In this article, Neal King, a member of the Veterinary Advisory Group to the insurance companies, approaches the subject of pet insurance from the point of view of both insurer and veterinary practice and explains how changes in an increasingly competitive field may affect this balance in the future.