Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance broker Bollinger Inc. has acquired the Cranford, N.J. agency, The Property and Casualty Group (PCG). Terms were not disclosed. PCG It sells commercial and personal insurance in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. The agency was …
Coast Guard figures show New Jersey bucked a national trend of record low recreational boating deaths in 2010. Eight people died in boating accidents in the Garden State last year, two more than in 2009. There have been no deaths …
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey can be sued for negligence over the collapse of a World Trade Center building in the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday. The agency is one …
A New Jersey fishing boat owner is charged in a botched attempt to sink his vessel to collect insurance money. A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charges 38-year-old Scott Tran of Cherry Hill, and three other men. Authorities say Tran wanted …
The Evesham, New Jersey Township Planning Board has approved a proposal to build a heliport despite objections from a nearby hospital and residents. Permission for the landing area was requested by the insurance firm Conner, Strong & Buckelew, whose chairman …
United Frontier Mutual Insurance Co. is now a member of Mutual Service Office Inc. (MSO), a New Jersey-based rating service bureau. United Frontier, based in Lockport, N.Y., is a P/C insurer that was founded in 1877 as The Farmers Mutual …
As weather forecasters predict an above-normal number of hurricanes this season, chances also increase that one of the storms will hit the mid-Atlantic states. The News Journal of Wilmington (Delaware) reports that the region’s last hurricane-related encounter was with remnants …
A blogger sued for defamation over comments posted on an Internet message board is not entitled to the same protections as a journalist, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The court said that blogger Shellee Hale’s criticism of …
New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled a convicted drunken driver has the right to sue the bar that served him. Wednesday’s 5-2 ruling stems from a 2006 motorcycle crash in which Frederick Voss had a blood-alcohol level of .196 percent, …
Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Independent Fiduciary Services Inc. (IFS), a Washington-based institutional investment advisory firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1986, IFS provides investment consulting and other services to pension, welfare …
