What is the most common complaint against Stewart Information Services?

The most common issue consumers report about Stewart Information Services is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Seized or attempted to seize your property". This is based on 9 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Stewart Information Services increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Stewart Information Services are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Stewart Information Services's reputation grade?

Stewart Information Services has a reputation grade of D (score: 54.6/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Stewart Information Services respond to consumer complaints?

Stewart Information Services has a 78% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Stewart Information Services operate?

Stewart Information Services has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 5 states, with the most complaints from Maryland (4 complaints).

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

Stewart Information Services - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 5 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

5
Attempts to collect debt not owed

3
False statements or representation

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record stewart-information-services Stewart Information Services

Grade D · 9 CFPB filings · 78% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #2650 · compose #3427

VOL 9
GRADE D
12MO 0
STATES 5
TIMELY 78%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #2,650
COMPOSE #3,427

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 1st Results Billings & Collections, Inc. (9 complaints)

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

Stewart Information Services's 9 CFPB complaints sit next to 1st Results Billings & Collections, Inc. 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 Stewart Information Services's CFPB filings land in Maryland

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Stewart Information Services is volume #2,650 but composite #3,427, while Maryland dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Maryland 44.4%; 4 of 9 filings · 5 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2022-05 10.5%; 8–15% band · 2 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,650 volume; #3,427 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 777 places worse than volume

How does Stewart Information Services compare to its peers?

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

Stewart Information Se… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

78%

40%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

67%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2015-12 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	5
Attempts to collect debt not owed	3
False statements or representation	1

Where do complaints against Stewart Information Services come from?

Stewart Information Services's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Maryland

4
New Mexico

2
California

1
Missouri

1
North Carolina

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Stewart Information Services: 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: 9.

4 peers

Know your rights before responding to Stewart Information Services: FDCPA rights guide · debt validation letter · rights library.

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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