06/11/04  Children were also his victims!

Re:  John Hammerle - DISD Music Director

Around 1987, my spouse and I reported John Hammerle to the insurance commission. 

He was our agent for our son's car insurance.   My son went into a higher risk pool because of his bad driving around age 17.  Hammerle got us his policy, which as you can imagine was pricey.  

We paid the money at Hammerle's office for the premiums every six months.  One day, when I needed some information from the policy, I called the insurance company directly.   They told me my son never had a policy with them.  So, we were paying Hammerle for nothing and were at huge personal risk.  That's fraud!

I knew Hammerle had been indicted but lost track of what happened to him.   When I saw see Hammerle's picture on the news and heard his name, I knew it was the same guy.  

I am shocked that he was hired by the DISD where he could get his hands on money again.  Hammerle guy appears to have a major character flaw!  What was DISD thinking when they hired him???

This is ancient history, and I don't think we have any documents to prove it anymore.  When this happened, we lived in Plano as did Hammerle.   As I remember, he was the director of the Plano Community Band at the time as well as being an insurance agent (but I don't remember stuff that long ago as well as I used to.

Hammerle and others in the article are quoted as saying he never hurt children.  I beg to differ!  My young son drove for many months and possibly several years with NO car insurance.  That means my son had no legal protection for himself, no medical protection for either himself or anyone he injured and no coverage to repair his car or the cars he might have damaged during that time. 

Hammerle  definitely could have hurt my son.....to say nothing of us!