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A family name.
A personal promise.
William Tuttle Agency is a Farmers Insurance® Premier Agency in Owatonna, Minnesota — auto, home, life, and business coverage for families and business owners across Minnesota — from a team that picks up the phone.
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William Tuttle Agency is a Farmers Insurance Premier Agency at 121 W Broadway St in Owatonna, Minnesota. We are #1 in Minnesota for Farmers new business production, and we write auto, home, renters, life, business, umbrella, and recreational insurance for families and business owners across all of Minnesota — plus Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Arizona. Call or text (507) 451-1168, or request a quote online — a licensed agent reviews every request personally.
Behind every policy is a licensed professional who answers the phone, knows your name, and treats your coverage like it matters, because it does.
Our agency operates on a simple premise: insurance is a relationship business. We invest the time to understand your circumstances, advise without pressure, and remain available long after the policy is bound. Our standard is 5-star customer satisfaction on every policy we write: a licensed agent who answers, explains, and follows through.
Liability tailored to your net worth, rideshare-ready policies, accident forgiveness, and Signal® savings — built for Minnesota's no-fault rules and real winters.
Explore Auto 02Replacement-cost dwelling coverage, Declining Deductibles®, scheduled valuables, and the endorsements hail-and-ice-dam country actually requires.
Explore Home 03Term, whole, universal, and indexed universal, structured around your family, your legacy, and your tax position.
Explore Life 04Business Owner Policies, general liability, commercial auto, workers' compensation, and cyber, designed around how you operate.
Explore Business 05One million dollars and above of liability protection over your home, auto, and rental properties — the quiet backbone of a real protection plan.
Explore Umbrella 06On the lake, on the trail, or on the road. Specialty assets deserve specialty coverage, not a thin endorsement on your auto policy.
Explore Recreational 07Pet insurance, flood, jewelry, surety bonds, home warranties, classic automobiles, and landlord coverage, placed across our specialty carriers.
Explore Specialty →Share what you are protecting. We will design the rest.
Request a QuoteCall our Owatonna office and you reach the same team that knows your name and your policy. No phone tree, no national queue, no starting over with a stranger.
We look at what you actually own and how you live, then build coverage to fit. An online quote sells you a number. We make sure that number protects you.
When something goes wrong, you are not alone with a hotline. You have a local agent who helps you file it right and follows it through to the end.
Auto, home, life, business, and the specialty lines in between, reviewed together. We catch the gaps and the overlaps a single-product website never will.
A licensed agent does not add to your premium. You get professional advice and an advocate built into your policy, not added on top of it.
We live where you live. We know the winters, the roads, and the risks here because we deal with them ourselves, every season.
Fifteen minutes on the phone: your assets, your dependents, your priorities. No pitch. Just listening, and the right questions.
Your risk profile, eligible discounts, bundling opportunities, and coverage gaps, reviewed across twenty-plus carriers.
A line-by-line walkthrough. Every question answered. Bound the same day when you are ready. Annual reviews for the life of the relationship.
Thad Tuttle opened these doors in 2023. His son Will leads the agency today, from the same office on Broadway Street — with the same standard behind every policy.
Second-generation agent carrying his father's work forward. Born and raised in Ellendale, Minnesota.
Runs the agency floor: workflow, producer support, and the systems that keep every client's policy on track.
The voice clients hear most. Service, advocacy, and the relentless follow-through that defines our agency.
Multi-line specialist with a sharp eye for the gaps prior agents have missed.
Rated by the families and business owners we protect across Minnesota. In their words:
"Peyton was great to work with. He works fast, efficient, and was genuinely supportive of my budget. He walked me through rate options clearly… Ended up with a policy that fit my needs perfectly. Highly recommend!"Desralynn C. · Google review
"I have never talked to an insurance agency that made me feel so comfortable asking questions. I appreciate that so very much. Would definitely recommend this company."Aimee H. · Google review
"I had an incredible experience. They hold a strong family feel, and you can tell integrity is important. I have full confidence in working with them."Kada T. · Google review
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We write auto, home, renters, life, business, umbrella, boat, ATV, and motorcycle insurance, plus specialty lines like pet, flood, jewelry, surety bonds, home warranty, classic auto, and landlord coverage — all from one office in Owatonna, Minnesota.
Farmers Insurance is our primary carrier, and we are a Farmers Premier Agency. We also hold appointments with more than twenty additional carriers for hard-to-place and specialty risks, so nearly every risk has a home with us.
Our office is at 121 W Broadway St in Owatonna, Minnesota, and we are licensed across the whole state. We serve families and business owners from the Twin Cities to Rochester, Duluth, St. Cloud and the Brainerd Lakes — including Mankato, Faribault, Rochester, Albert Lea, Waseca, Northfield, and the Steele County towns of Medford, Ellendale, and Blooming Prairie, plus New Richland, Claremont, and Dodge Center. We are licensed in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Arizona — and we actively serve clients in all five.
Request a quote online in about two minutes, call or text (507) 451-1168, or book an appointment. A licensed local agent — not a call center — reviews every request.
The agency is owned by William "Will" Tuttle, a second-generation Farmers Insurance agent. His father, Thad Tuttle, founded it in 2023 and passed away in February 2026; Will owns and leads the agency today. It operates as Tuttle Family LLC — which is where the tagline comes from: A family name. A personal promise. Read our story.