As you may know, this week is National Veterans Small Business Week. But, you may not know that every November Progressive Insurance has a one-day vehicle giveaway program for some lucky veterans. It’s called the Keys to Progress® Program (#KeysToProgress), Giving Back to Those Who Gave So Much. Since 2013, the program has donated more than 600 vehicles to our veterans and various veteran organizations. […]

Buy the Gap When a Car is Financed or Leased No, this isn’t coverage against an ill-planned shopping spree at a certain clothing store in your local mall. In short, gap insurance protects you from owing more than your car is worth in case of a major accident or theft. If your vehicle is stolen, or totaled by an accident or natural disaster, the amount […]

Do you understand what it means to have the protection of full coverage auto insurance? Complete protection for vehicle insurance means you have more than simply the minimum car and truck insurance coverage that will just “get by” in Plainview, Texas. With complete coverage insurance, you and your automobile are simply that–fully covered and safeguarded against anything that might take place to you or your […]

Hettler Insurance Agency would like to thank Brandon Word of Lubbock, Texas, for his kind words on Facebook today. After all, everyone loves a kind word. We do love helping our customers get the best deal on auto insurance, home insurance, etc. When customers go out of their way to let people know how happy they are, then we know we’re doing a good job. […]

We recently made a trip to Plainview, Texas, Hale County seat, to admire the county courthouse and see some of the popular antique shops. While there, we got some great photos of the courthouse and antiques for Hettler Insurance agency. On a side note, there is a town called Hale Center that we passed through on the way to Plainview. For an agency that provides […]

 Halloween is known for bats, vampires, ghosts, witches, candy, and… insurance claims? These can be the spookiest of all. And Halloween is one of the biggest days for the kind of trickery that leads to insurance claims.

Auto Insurance. You may think of it as a paper stuffed in your glove box that allows you to legally drive in the U.S. That hard copy, though, is actually the contract you made for an exchange of money for coverage. When you purchase car insurance, you are buying security. If damage occurs to your property, health, or others during a collision, theft or natural […]

We’ve all been there. You’re driving to work or school wondering if you should stop for coffee, but before you reach the parking lot, everything changes. You see odd movement out of the corner of your eye/rear-view mirror or hear screeching tires, and then you’re stuck – waiting for the police. That’s if you are lucky. If you are unlucky, you are waiting for the […]

Buying insurance in Lubbock is quite a shock for many who move here from other parts of the country.  They can’t believe that home insurance can cost so much.  When I moved to Lubbock over 30 years ago, the cost of my home insurance doubled while the amount of coverage decreased 25%. Lubbock area deductibles also are normally 1% of the value of your home.  […]

Tornado!  The mere word conjures up fear.  Lubbock, TX has experienced 92 tornadoes over the past 56 years according to http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/Texas/Lubbock  Lubbock averages more than one tornado in the county each year.  So there’s no question that we have an abundance of activity that regularly strikes our town.

Why do you buy Auto Insurance?  “I have to” may be your response and that is so true.  Most states require auto liability insurance and almost all lenders require collision and other than collision coverage (the so-called “Full Coverage” option) on your car insurance. So, “I have to” is a great reason but there is an even better reason….

Hettler Insurance is excited to announce that in August, 3 contracting companies with total sales approximating $7,000,000 were added to their client list.

My first year in the insurance business was notable for a number of reasons but this claim has been among the strangest that I have ever experienced.  It seems that our customer was taking a shotgun out of his pickup truck and dropped the gun.  Either while attempting to catch the gun or upon the gun’s collision with the pavement, the shotgun discharged shooting pellets […]

Low deductibles are great when the claim occurs but rarely are they the best long term decision. O.K.  Let’s start this discussion with a trip to Las Vegas.  Odds are, if you are reading this, you don’t live in Vegas so a trip is within the sphere of imagination for you.   See this decision is all about odds.

So I was at the Lubbock, Texas Parade of Homes last week and saw a friend that said he wanted to call me about his home and auto insurance.  He called me that following Monday and a couple of days later, Hettler Insurance wrote his auto insurance policy.  I didn’t know what he was paying through his long time agent, but I did know that […]