“It takes about 7 weeks from the time you put in your claim to then be paid. Also my cat got diagnosed with HCM a heart condition and requires yearly scans. They put my monthly payment up by 100%. Insurance companies rarely lose. I wouldn't recommend!!”
“Continuation claim of over a year . 5 weeks passed and nothing . Chased them up . Suddenly they not happy with the invoice and want it split ? Causing more delays and never once before have they asked for this. Meanwhile I am accruing interest on my credit card as the vet asked me to pay upfront .”
“Sounds like common practice for purely pets to delay payments.our dog has an arthritic lump on her leg. After much toing and froing we were finally paid following our vets telling them it was not connected to a hip problem a few years previously. Ongoing monthly medication is needed and purely pets promptly increased our premium to cover the cost of the medication. We still have to wait weeks for the cost of meds to be reimbursed with loads of texts and emails being sent to us saying it is being looked into.WHY when this is an ongoing claim doesn’t take so long to sort?. Guess who won’t be recommending this company to anyone.”
“We had to have our 4 year old dog pts 6 weeks ago. She suddenly deteriorated and we found out she had a large renal mass. In all we paid out 2k whilst the vets put the claim in. They told me they were taking 4 weeks to settle claims. At week 5 they emailed to say they needed more information from the vet and if we didn't provide the information within 30 days they would cancel the claim !
My husband rang them, livid, they apparently were challenging why the vet had given a drug twice. The vet answered that same day. They then settled one of 4 separate elements to the claim,despite them all being linked in their system. Again my husband rang and today to ask why on earth were they not processing all together as it was the same illness over the space of 10 days and our dog is dead. They then said they would look to get it sorted by 28 November. Needless to say we weren't happy and after speaking to a supervisor the call handler said they would get it sorted this week.
We've had an email today to say they are settling the claim but it could take up to 7 days for the payment to reach us.
Shocking communication,, happy to delay with no reason given, considering a sudden new and terminal condition. Glad they've paid up, but awful to deal with when you've just lost your pet unexpectedly.
We are thinking about a new puppy but one thing is for sure we won't be using Purely Pets again.”
“I put in a claim for surgery done in Sept 2021 and was told claims were taking up to a month to process etc. I rang on Friday 22/10/2021 as it was 4 weeks and had not heard a thing from them. I was told it would take a further 14 to 21 days even though the claim had been approved. I politely told the gentleman I wasn't prepared to wait a further 14/21 days and said I was very unhappy with the service. I then got another phone call from Portsmouth and it was a lady asking what account I wanted the money paying into. After telling her she said it would be in that day and no it wasn't in the account so I will be ringing again tomorrow to find out what is going on I am fuming with them. I personally would stay away from this pet insurers because they are taking far too long with claims which people have had to shell out for.”
“Very Insensitive Rude Male .......higher up spoke to me regarding the excessive high renewal of my cat Sacha......from £799 to almost £1,500
to which I am going to make a complaint to the Ombudsman.
Policy: pur 31835019
Next time I will use Pet Plan”
