Pamela Pettus
Pamela Pettus (CAS’88) of Boca Raton, Fla., is the CEO and cofounder of The Gavel, a national legal network designed to streamline the claims defense experience for claims professionals. Pamela writes that she brings a pioneering approach to the executive team as a result of her background in the courtroom and her decades of work managing all lines of insured and self-insured claims. After BU, Pamela graduated from Emory University School of Law. She worked at Harvard Law School before obtaining a prestigious clerkship with the Supreme Court of Georgia. The legal knowledge she developed was essential for her successful transition to her insurance industry career as a claims representative at State Farm Insurance. She has experience with handling and managing most insurable risks, including directors and officers, mergers and acquisitions, coverage, professional liability, property and casualty, employer liability, product liability, property, crime, and class action litigation. Pamela has presented at professional conferences on a wide variety of legal and claims topics. Find out more at www.thegavel.net, or email Pamela at pamela@thegavel.net.
From the Winter-Spring 2018 issue.