What is the most common complaint against First American Financial Corporation?

The most common issue consumers report about First American Financial Corporation is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Attempted to collect wrong amount". This is based on 27 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against First American Financial Corporation increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against First American Financial Corporation are falling. The company received 3 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is First American Financial Corporation's reputation grade?

First American Financial Corporation has a reputation grade of B (score: 64.0/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does First American Financial Corporation respond to consumer complaints?

First American Financial Corporation has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 17% of cases.

In how many states does First American Financial Corporation operate?

First American Financial Corporation has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 9 states, with the most complaints from California (12 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

First American Financial Corporation - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 9 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

6
False statements or representation

6
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

5
Written notification about debt

4
Taking/threatening an illegal action

3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record first-american-financial-corporation First American Financial Corporation

Grade B · 27 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #1621 · compose #1882

VOL 27
GRADE B
12MO 3
STATES 9
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 17%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #1,621
COMPOSE #1,882

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: AAA Auto Title Loans, LLC (27 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

First American Financial Corporation's 27 CFPB complaints sit next to AAA Auto Title Loans, LLC on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

44.4% of First American Financial Corporation's CFPB filings land in California

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 44.4%; 12 of 27 filings · 9 states touched
Spike month: 2026-01 18.2%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks: #1,621 volume; #1,882 composite; Among 5,420 volume-ranked / 5,278 scored collectors

How does First American Financial Corporation compare to its peers?

How does FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

FIRST AMERICAN FINANCI… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

78%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

17%

30%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2017-04 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	6
False statements or representation	6
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	5
Written notification about debt	4
Taking/threatening an illegal action	3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1
Disclosure verification of debt	1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1

Where do complaints against First American Financial Corporation come from?

First American Financial Corporation's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

12
Florida

3
Michigan

3
Arizona

2
Georgia

2
North Carolina

1
Pennsylvania

1
Utah

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for First American Financial Corporation: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 27.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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