Jay Gallagher

My passion is raising money for cancer fighting initiatives as a member of Team Get In the Game. (That's me riding the bike on the far right.)

My day job is being Founder/ Managing Principal of Vector Insurance Services, LLC , provider of claims handling, risk management & investigative services ( including Accident Reconstruction) to the insurance, legal, trucking & self-insured markets. We also now provide custom database applications for investigations, claims handling & image processing.

Claims adjusting's not for everyone. If you stay in this business for more than 3 years, you're probably ruined for doing anything else. As the Borg would say, "Resistance is futile."

I've got 30 years experience handling all lines of insurance claims & investigations. My focus has always been on high-end investigations. However, I might be proudest of being fully emersed in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans , supervising 50 adjusters while handling 400 losses myself, including multi-million dollar losses to businesses, schools & governmental entites.

I'm a past President of the Louisiana Claims Association & a provider of continuing education courses for Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi claims adjusters, investigators & attorneys. I was the Louisiana Claims Person of the Year in 2005.

Since 2010, I've been a proud partipant in the 24 Hours of Booty. a charity/endurance ride to raise money for LiveSTRONG & other cancer fighting initiatives. From 2011-2104, I finished among the top three in individual fundrasing at the 24HOB Atlanta event & in 2014 captained a very small team which took the top team fundraising spot.

The fundraising competition is a fun, friendly way to engage other riders & to push ourselves to raise more money. But, at the end of the day, it's truly about those who are personally battling cancer, their health care providers & their care givers, friends/ family.

I'm entering my eighth fundraising year in support of LiveSTRONG's mission of early detection, healthy living & their excellent FREE patient navigation program. Find out more at LiveSTRONG.org!

To help these programs, please consider donating to my ride:

https://events.24hoursofbooty.org/fundraise?fcid=596230