Emotional support dog Nationwide will drop 100,000 pet insurance policies by summer 2025. (Credit: Azeemud-Deen Jacobs/peopleimages.com/Adobe Stock)

Nationwide announced the non-renewal of roughly 100,000 pet insurance policies between this spring and the summer of 2025.

The company said in a statement that inflation in the cost of veterinary care led to underwriting changes and the withdrawal of certain products in some U.S. states, calling them "difficult actions that are necessary to ensure a financially sustainable future for our pet insurance line of business."

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