How Did Pet Health Insurance Companies Get Started?
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Pet health insurance companies got their start in 1982 when a company called Veterinary Pet Insurance sold a policy to help protect the health and welfare of one of the world’s most famous pets, Lassie. Pet health insurance companies actually started as a response to the notion that good people were forced to put pets to sleep over curable conditions because those curable conditions cost too much money to get treated. It just seemed natural to the 700 veterinarians that helped to start that first pet health insurance company Veterinary Pet Insurance. People have people insurance companies so why can’t pets have pet health insurance companies? The idea of pet health insurance companies blossomed from there.