Specialties

We are a full service insurance brokerage & agency - We offer a broad portfolio with a multifaceted approach to our clients' constantly changing & specific insurance needs, including Commercial, Public Entity, Life & Health, Employee Benefits and Personal Insurance, and associated Risk Management Programs. Our approach - It is our goal to establish a collaborative relationship with our clients. We work with you on program design options & costs, market options, coverage issues, renewal submissions, contract & lease reviews, risk control, claims support, and more. We are local - We have offices located in Bedminster, Cranford, and Wall and have been proudly serving Northern New Jersey for more than sixty years. We have an experienced staff - Our backgrounds include time spent with insurance companies, our clients and global insurance brokerage firms.

History

Established in 2007.

In December 2014 Meeker Sharkey Associates LLC and the James F. Hurley Insurance Agency announced a merger of the firms. The combined firm trades as Meeker Sharkey & Hurley and maintains locations in Cranford, NJ, Wall Township, NJ and Basking Ridge, NJ. Meeker Sharkey Associates, LLC traces its roots to 1864 to the W.H. Meeker Company of Elizabeth, NJ. James F. Hurley Insurance Agency was established in 1955 by James F. Hurley in Bedminster, NJ.

Meet the Business Owner: Thomas S.

Sharkey graduated from Villanova University, and later obtained an MBA from New York University. He began his career in 1980 working for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., where he honed his skills in finance. He later joined his father's company, Meeker Sharkey in 1985 as a Property & Casualty and Employee Benefits specialist. Over the course of 13 years in the insurance business, Sharkey rose to become President & CEO of Meeker Sharkey in 1998. By that point in time, he had helped to grow Meeker Sharkey into one of the largest U.S.-based risk management, insurance and employee benefits companies in the country.