Does your automobile insurance company have a very large amount of customer complaints? Will you have problems placing a claim, or have a valid claim delayed or denied? Is your insurance company any good? Will you have a bad experience when you need your car insurance company? Most consumers fail to check the complaint records of their car & home insurance companies. This blog post provides complaint information for twenty-one leading insurance companies selling auto insurance in South Carolina, and rates & ranks them based on their 2010 national complaint record (Accurate 2011 complaint records are not available yet). Know about the best & worst insurance companies in South Carolina!
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With my state reviews, I like to use state complaint statistics, to tell you if an insurance company has a better or worse complaint record in your state, compared to the state record of competing insurance companies.
Unfortunately, not every state’s insurance department provides state complaint ratios. South Carolina is one not having them available, though you can call the South Carolina Department of Insurance, and they will tell you the raw number of complaints for an insurance company. I like it when states provide state complaint ratios. Complaint ratios are helpful to compare insurance companies, to see if an insurance company has a higher than average, or lower than average number of auto insurance complaints, or more or less complaints as compared to other companies.
A state’s insurance department website is usually a good place to find out consumer information about insurance & insurance companies.
Here’s the link to the South Carolina Department of Insurance Web site, which I used as a resource to find the 21 biggest (by SC market share) insurance companies selling auto insurance in South Carolina.
As I mentioned earlier in this blog entry, it helps to have a company’s complaint ratio to fairly compare one insurance company’s complaint record with another insurance company’s complaint record.
I devised a letter grade system, using the national car insurance complaint ratios from my website, for the insurance companies listed below, to make it easy to tell an auto insurance company with a great or good complaint record, from an auto insurance company with a poor or average complaint record.
I list all the companies with about 1% or more of the S. Carolina auto insurance market. But there are over 100 insurance companies selling car insurance in SC, and a good percentage (roughly 25% of the market) of these companies have less than 1% market share, including big national insurance companies, like Esurance, 21st Century, and Metropolitan (Metlife). These companies may provide great service, and/or have the lowest rate for you.
You can find information about other auto & home insurance companies on my website. You can see more national auto & home insurance complaint ratios for other companies not on the list below, in addition to AM Best financial strength ratings and JD Power customer satisfaction ratings for all the major auto & home insurance companies in the USA.
Here is my grading system. I also list the national complaint ratio for each company (the lower the number the better the complaint record).
A+ = Insurance companies with complaints 25% or less than the average insurance company.
A = Insurance companies with complaints 50% or less than the average insurance company.
B = Insurance companies with complaints 90% or less than the average insurance company.
C = Insurance companies with complaints from 90% to 110% of the average insurance company.
D = Insurance companies with complaints from 110% to 200% of the average insurance company.
F = Insurance companies with complaints over 200% of the average insurance company. More than twice as much as average!
Consider these grades, along with price and other factors (as listed on my website), when choosing an auto insurance company.
Insurance companies frequently have several subsidiary auto insurance companies. Make sure you know the correct name of the insurance subsidiary quoting or insuring you, to check the proper complaint grade.
For example, Progressive has several auto insurance companies selling car insurance in SC, and two of these companies are on this list: Progressive Northern Insurance Company & Progressive Max Insurance Company. If the subsidiary insurance company quoting or insuring you is not on this list, check the insurance review for the parent company on my website to find it. If you can’t locate it, e-mail me, or leave a message for me on Facebook or Twitter, and I will research it for you. See my contact information at the end of this blog post.
If you want to decrease the chance of having a problem with your insurance company, go with the highest ranked automobile insurance company, although it could cost more. The good news is the best auto insurance companies often have very good rates. You can insure with a better insurance company AND save money!
If you currently do not have auto insurance, or you have tickets or accidents, some auto insurance companies may not insure you. See this blog post for auto insurance companies insuring higher risk drivers if you find many of the companies on this list will not insure you, or offer you a reasonable price.
Here’s the list. Remember to shop with as many companies as possible, so you can find the best rates, service, & coverage for you.
21 Top South Carolina Auto Insurance Companies Ranked from Best to Worst by Their 2010 National Complaint Records
1. South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company = A+ (.17)
2. Owners Insurance Company (Auto-Owners) = A+ (.19)
3. State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Company = A (.34)
4. Allstate Fire & Casualty Insurance Company = A (.39)
5. First National Insurance Company of America ( Safeco ) = A (.42)
6. Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) = A (.43)
7. Progressive Max Insurance Company = A (.44)
8. Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance Company = A- (.50)
9. Travelers Home & Marine Insurance Company = B+ (.52)
10. Progressive Northern Insurance Company = B (.54)
11. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company = B (.54)
12. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company = B (.56)
13. Allstate Indemnity Company= B (.57)
14. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company = B (.61)
15. Geico Indemnity Company = B (.62)
16. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company = B (.71)
17. United Services Automobile Association ( USAA ) = B (.71) (USAA sells only to the military, their immediate family members, and honorably discharged veterans).
18. Northbrook Indemnity Company = B (.78)
19. Allstate Insurance Company = C (.96)
20. USAA Casualty Insurance Company = C (.96) (USAA sells only to the military, their immediate family members, and honorably discharged veterans).
21. Peak Property & Casualty Insurance Company = D (1.70)
Now you know the complaint ratings for the major auto insurance companies in South Carolina. The next step is to get price quotes by shopping your auto insurance & homeowners insurance with ALL the leading insurance companies, you can get a great price AND great customer service & claims handling. Use my website to find all the leading insurance companies, evaluate their customer service, and find the best price for you.
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