In 1976, this growth lead to an expansion of the company's Santa Ana headquarters; by 1982, First American served all regions of the United States.

International operations continued to expand from there onwards, and First American was the first title insurance provider in Mexico, Korea and Hong Kong, having the leading market share in Australia and England.

June 1, 2010 marked the separation of the First American Corporation's financial services operations and its information solution businesses into two independent public companies.

The company continued to be commonly referred to as First American and serves homebuyers and sellers, real estate professionals, loan originators and servicers, commercial property professionals, homebuilders, and others involved in residential and commercial property transactions with products and services specific to their businesses.

In February 2020, First American announced it agreed to buy Docutech, a document, eSign and compliance technology provider, for $350 million.

[8] In May 2019, it was reported that First American Financial Corp's website had inadvertently leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals dating back to 2003.

The exposed data included sensitive personal information such as bank account numbers, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver's license images, accessible without any form of authentication to anyone with a web browser.

Approximately 885 million files were potentially exposed, with the earliest document dating back over 16 years.

The company responded by disabling external access to the application and initiating an internal review to evaluate the impact on customer information security.