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USAA pulled in the most awards on a national basis. San Antonio, Texas-based USAA Insurance, America’s fifth largest property-casualty insurer, used the sudden change in driving patterns and accident logs as a cue to return money to its policyholders.
In 2020, USAA has returned over $1 billion to its policyholders through “auto insurance dividends,” which are helping to keep cash in their pockets at a time of economic uncertainty.
In the first few months after Coronavirus-related lockdowns were implemented, USAA paid $800 million in dividends by giving an immediate 20% credit on three months of auto insurance premiums.
Towards the end of the summer, it added to the figure, announcing a $270 million dividend to policyholders in the form of 10% credits on premiums for the months of June and July. In total, over seven million USAA customers have received dividends this year.
Founded in 1922 by a group of Army officers who pooled their capital together to insure each other’s automobiles, USAA expanded its coverage to the Navy and Marine Corps a year later. Now, it offers low-cost insurance products to 13 million members of the U.S. military, veterans, and their families. With a history of passing on savings to customers and deep loyalty, USAA is the top performing insurer in Forbes’ first annual ranking
To make our ranking, market research firm Statista surveyed over 20,000 insurance customers in every state nationwide. The ranking covers five products: Auto, Homeowners, Renters, Term Life, and Permanent Life Insurance.
To gauge whose customers gave their insurers the highest grades, our survey factored in customers’ overall recommendations, general satisfaction as well as five subdimensions such as financial advice, customer service, pay-to-performance ratios, transparency, and damage/benefit ratios.
To provide a comprehensive assessment of insurers on a state-by-state basis, we were able to award 1-to-5 insurance companies in all U.S. states for up to 5 insurance products. To make our list, insurers had to have a total score of at least 70 (on a scale from 0-to-100). Because many insurers operate in multiple states, just 93 firms made our list nationwide. In total, our ranking includes 772 awards throughout all products and states.
“We see that members are driving less than when the pandemic hit. As these patterns unfold, we are adjusting our auto insurance rates,” said USAA CEO Wayne Peacock when announcing the firm’s auto insurance dividend, “Giving money back to our members, especially now when budgets are stretched, is another way we are helping.” In 2019, USAA and its subsidiaries returned nearly $2.4 billion in dividends, distributions, and bank rebates and rewards. In addition to auto insurance dividends, USAA is responding to the Coronavirus by offering special payment arrangements on property and auto insurance, extending grace periods on payments by up to a year.
State Farm, founded in Bloomington, Illinois in 1922 by a retired farmer and insurance salesman George Jacob “G.J,” Mecherle, was our second-leading award getter. State Farm received 116 Best In State awards for its products across the categories we tracked.
With 84 million policies and accounts in force nationwide, including over 40 million automotive insurance policies, State Farm led our rankings in term life and permanent life. It received awards in 17 states for term life
Allstate, founded in 1930 by General Robert E. Wood, then the president of retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co, was the third-leading recipient of our Best In State insurance awards.
Allstate quickly became one of America’s biggest insurers. In 1993, Sears spun off a piece of Allstate to stock market investors in what was then the largest initial public offering in U.S. history. While Sears went bankrupt and was liquidated a few years ago, Allstate has thrived, growing to a $29 billion market capitalization after its stock returned about 13% annually over the past decade, in line with the S&P 500 Index.
Allstate received a total of 59 Best In State awards, including 12 awards for its auto insurance products, 15 for home insurance, and 14 for its renter’s insurance. It received a further 2 Best In State awards for its term life products and 16 awards for its permanent life products.
Cleveland-based Progressive Insurance, which took in a total of 39 awards. Boston-based Liberty Mutual rounded the top-5 as an award getter in Statista’s ranking, receiving 34 total Best In State awards across the products we tracked.
AAA, or the American Automobile Association, was founded in 1902 when nine Chicago-based motor clubs banded together to help promote roads and highways that could be traversed by then-nascent automobiles. Its iconic AAA road maps began being published in 1905 and its hotel guides were launched in 1917. Now AAA is one of America’s largest insurance providers, and its Triple-A cards are used by millions of Americans for roadside assistance. The insurer took home a total of 32 of our Best In State awards.
Rounding out the top-1o of Best In State award recipients were Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance, which won 31 of our Best In State insurance awards, New York-based MetLife, which won 25 awards, GEICO (23 awards), and Safeco (22 awards). Other notable recipients included New York Life, Nationwide, and Travelers, which received 14, 13, and 12 Best In State insurance awards, respectively.
and in 28 states for permanent life, placing as the top-rated life insurance provider in 12 states. It was placed as the award recipient in automotive, homeowners, and renters insurance.
Top 10 Insurance Companies In Every State 2022
