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Dairyland Insurance (Sentry)
Dairyland Insurance (Sentry)'s complaint record, claim-denial rate and reputation grade, drawn from published NAIC complaint data and CMS Transparency in Coverage.
- F
- Reputation grade
- 2.34
- Complaint index
- 40
- States active
The verdict
Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) earns a F reputation grade - a significantly worse record than peers, according to the NAIC's published complaint index, its ratio runs 2.34, above the 1.0 market average.
- F
- reputation grade
- 2.34
- NAIC complaint index
Graded on 1 of 3 measures: NAIC complaints. The score is rescaled across the measures available, so it is not directly comparable with a carrier graded on more of them.
How we calculated this grade →NAIC CIS filing desk
NAIC 35947 F · 6.4
GRADE-F · INDEX-HOT · DENIAL-NONE · RANK-WORST · PHOTO-FINISH · LINES-1 · BOOK-RICH
- GRADE-F F · 6.4
- INDEX-HOT 2.34
- DENIAL-NONE No CMS file
- RANK-WORST #62/72
- PHOTO-FINISH Hippo Insurance · F
- LINES-1 1 line
- BOOK-RICH 6/7 fields
Nearest complaint-index peer: Hippo Insurance (±0.00 index pts)
Instrument codes from this carrier’s NAIC Consumer Information Source filing: grade band, complaint index, CMS denial band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, line book, and field completeness. Not an official NAIC rating.
Complaint-index neighbourhood around Dairyland Insurance (Sentry)
Quietest and hottest poles plus nearest index peers, not a full NAIC corpus board reprint.
Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) - complaint index neighbourhood
- Northwestern Mutual… · quietest 0
Northwestern Mutual… · quietest
0 complaint index
- Ambetter (Centene) · near
Ambetter (Centene) · near
2 complaint index
- Dairyland Insurance… · this carrier
Dairyland Insurance… · this carrier
2 complaint index
- Hippo Insurance · near
Hippo Insurance · near
2 complaint index
- Citizens Property In… · near
Citizens Property In… · near
2 complaint index
- Kemper Auto · near
Kemper Auto · near
2 complaint index
- Gainsco Insurance · hottest
Gainsco Insurance · hottest
4 complaint index
What this shows According to PlainInsurer's dataset, Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) has a lower (better) NAIC complaint index than 13% of the 72 rated insurers it tracks and ranks #15 of 21 carriers by complaint ratio in Auto Insurance.
Where Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) sits on complaints
- Best in data 0
Lowest complaint index in PlainInsurer's dataset: 0.23
0 complaint index
- Market avg 1
Market average complaint index = 1.0 (NAIC benchmark)
1 complaint index
- Dairyland Insurance
Dairyland Insurance (Sentry): complaint index 2.34
2 complaint index
- Worst in data
Highest complaint index in PlainInsurer's dataset: 3.87
4 complaint index
What this shows Dairyland Insurance (Sentry)'s complaint index of 2.34 is 134% above the 1.0 market average for a carrier of its size.
Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) vs. the full rated-insurer dataset
234% 13th percentile more affordable than 13% of 72 rated insurers
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Source NAIC published complaint index (2024) · 2024
Scale vs. complaint-adjusted score
Complaint record by line of business
| Line | Est. complaints | Complaint index | States active |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Insurance | ~11,430 | 2.34 | 40 |
Auto insurance market share
Private-passenger-auto ranking by written premium, NAIC 2024
What the NAIC filing desk shows for Dairyland Insurance (Sentry)
According to PlainInsurer's dataset, Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) has a lower (better) NAIC complaint index than 13% of the 72 rated insurers it tracks and ranks #15 of 21 carriers by complaint ratio in Auto Insurance.
Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) is outside the CMS marketplace file, but the claim-denial rate ranking shows what that data reports for the carriers it does cover. How complaint indexes place Dairyland Insurance (Sentry).
Nationwide insurers with similar scores or complaint volume
Two corpus-wide peer sets for Dairyland Insurance (Sentry): nearest national-scale carriers by composite score and by NAIC complaint volume. These are cross-market neighborhoods, not the corporate-family list or same-grade chips above.
Similar composite score
Nearest carriers by composite score (6.4 here). Floored at 50+ complaints and 5+ states.
Similar complaint volume
Nearest carriers by NAIC complaint count (11,430 here). Deduped against the score peers so the two sets stay distinct.
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Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) is filed with the NAIC under company number 35947. Search that number directly in the NAIC's own public consumer-information tool to cross-check this page against the primary source.
Verify on NAIC Consumer Information SourceSource: NAIC published complaint index data Complaint index, reputation grade for Dairyland Insurance (Sentry) · 2024
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