The best auto insurance companies

Ranked on complaint index: confirmed complaints measured against how much business each company writes, so a giant carrier and a small one can be compared on the same footing. A company at 0.50 draws half.

This is a service record, not a price comparison, and not a prediction about any one claim. How we grade →

#Company GradeComplaint index ComplaintsBusiness written
1 Essentia Insurance Company A
0.36 64% below market raw 0.14
4
2 New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company A
0.38 62% below market raw 0.17
5 $954.9m
3 Texas Farm Bureau Underwriters A
0.42 58% below market raw 0.31
16 378,306
4 Germania Select Insurance Company A
0.45 55% below market raw 0.12
2 122,938
5 State Farm A
0.47 53% below market
605
6 GEICO A
0.51 49% below market
325
7 Texas Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company A
0.55 45% below market raw 0.26
4 112,502
8 Nationwide A
0.56 44% below market raw 0.35
7
9 Dairyland B
0.68 32% below market raw 0.53
11 153,725
10 Progressive B
0.71 30% below market
682
11 Consumers County Mutual Insurance Company B
0.74 26% below market
36 385,522
12 The Hartford B
0.75 25% below market raw 0.65
16
13 Farmers B
0.77 23% below market
137
14 Mercury Insurance B
0.79 21% below market raw 0.63
9
15 American Family B
0.88 13% below market raw 0.78
10
16 Amica B
0.89 11% below market raw 0.83
15
17 Alinsco Insurance Company C
0.90 10% below market raw 0.82
11 98,766
18 Chubb C
0.91 9% below market raw 0.84
11
19 Allstate C
0.94 6% below market
350
20 Travelers C
0.97 about market average
51
21 Erie Insurance C
1.03 about market average
13 $400.5m
22 Farmers Property And Casualty Insurance Company C
1.16 1.2× the market rate raw 1.27
17
23 American Access Casualty Company C
1.21 1.2× the market rate raw 1.35
20 108,695
24 Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company C
1.24 1.2× the market rate raw 1.35
32 175,040
25 Falcon Insurance Company D
1.32 1.3× the market rate raw 1.56
21 98,924
26 Auto Club County Mutual Insurance Company D
1.34 1.3× the market rate raw 1.39
90 477,081
27 Liberty Mutual D
1.39 1.4× the market rate raw 1.44
115
28 Redpoint County Mutual Insurance Company D
1.40 1.4× the market rate
269 1,397,117
29 American States Insurance Company D
1.48 1.5× the market rate raw 1.85
24 $418.3m
30 Gainsco D
1.50 1.5× the market rate raw 1.99
20 73,890
31 USAA D
1.64 1.6× the market rate
362
32 Lm General Insurance Company D
1.68 1.7× the market rate raw 1.85
76 $1.33bn
33 Garrison Property And Casualty Insurance Company F
1.80 1.8× the market rate raw 1.94
108
34 Home State County Mutual Insurance Company F
1.84 1.8× the market rate raw 1.93
187 714,671
35 Goauto Insurance Company F
2.32 2.3× the market rate raw 3.19
48 110,626
36 Infinity County Mutual Insurance Company F
2.32 2.3× the market rate raw 3.07
54 129,445
37 Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Company F
2.36 2.4× the market rate raw 2.52
205 597,955
38 National General F
2.54 2.5× the market rate raw 3.44
59
39 Loya Insurance Company F
5.94 5.9× the market rate raw 7.00
326 342,820
40 Tesla Property & Casualty, Inc. F
14.85 14.9× the market rate raw 27.13
306 82,953

Grades come from the distribution of the 40 companies large enough to grade this period: A at or below 0.66, F above 1.71.

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