Latest Mexico Headlines

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Colorado Man Files Negligence Suit in Deadly New Mexico Bus Crash

May 30 2019 // A Colorado man who survived a bus crash in New Mexico that killed three people including his wife last July has filed a lawsuit.Ramon Grajeda-Beltran and Olga Hernandez-Beltran of Rocky Ford were passengers on a commercial...

Liberty Mutual Reinsurance Launches Operation Using Lloyd’s Mexico Platform

May 23 2019 // Liberty Mutual Reinsurance the reinsurance arm of Liberty Specialty Markets, announced it has launched a reinsurance operation under Lloyd’s registration in Mexico to serve clients in Mexico and Central America.The...

New Mexico Mayor’s Plan Would Bill Drivers for Emergency Costs

May 21 2019 // A New Mexico mayor has proposed billing drivers involved in car accidents resulting in hazardous material cleanup or victim extractions.The Albuquerque Journal reported that Mayor Tim Keller’s budget proposal for...

Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Enters New Mexico Commercial Auto Market

May 2 2019 // Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. has entered the New Mexico commercial auto market as an admitted carrier specializing in insurance for distressed and substandard risks.PPCI offers the capacity to insure any...

NOAA Upgrades Hurricane Michael to Category 5

Apr 22 2019 // Hurricane Michael, which devastated a swath of the Florida Panhandle last fall, has been upgraded to a Category 5 storm, only the fourth to make recorded landfall in the United States and the first since 1992.The...

Farmers Grow to Like Crop of Technologies Helping Them Manage Weather Risk

Apr 16 2019 // When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first move isn’t to his truck to assess the damage. These days, it’s to his iPad.Nine...

‘Bomb Cyclone’ Adds to Weather Woes in Central US

Apr 12 2019 // A storm system known as a “bomb cyclone” slowly churned through the U.S. interior Thursday for the second time in a month, unleashing a blizzard that struck the Upper Midwest and creating hazardous fire...

New Mexico Tornado Destroyed 10 Homes, Inured 5

Mar 19 2019 // A tornado that ripped roofs from buildings and injured five people in a tiny New Mexico town left a trail of debris, authorities reported. The tornado touched down outside of Dexter last week on Tuesday evening before...

New Mexico Tornado Traveled 15-Mile-Long Path, Report Shows

Mar 18 2019 // The National Weather Service reported that a tornado that destroyed or damaged numerous homes and other structures in the southern New Mexico community of Dexter traveled a path about 15 miles long and 150-350 yards...

Disabled Workers Paid Less Than Minimum Wage Sue Non-Profit for Wage Theft

Mar 14 2019 // A New Mexico non-profit that’s assembled gift bags for the Oscars and Grammys is facing a class action lawsuit brought by disabled employees who say it pays as little as 18 cents an hour.The suit is the latest to...

Bill Advancing to Make Recreational Marijuana Legal in New Mexico

Mar 12 2019 // A proposal to legalize the sale and consumption of recreational marijuana through state-run stores in New Mexico is advancing in the state Legislature. A Senate panel on Saturday endorsed the House-approved bill that would...

U.S. Working with Mexico, Canada to Block African Swine Fever

Feb 22 2019 // The United States, Canada and Mexico are coordinating efforts to prevent the arrival of a highly contagious swine disease that has swept through China’s hog herd and parts of Europe, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny...

New Mexico County to Pay $1.75M to Settle Suits over Deadly 2017 Shooting

Feb 6 2019 // New Mexico’s Bernalillo County will pay almost $2 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from a deputy’s 2017 fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects.KRQE-TV reports the county will make a $1.75 million...

Octo Telematics to Provide Commercial Fleet Telematics to Mexico Auto Insurer

Jan 30 2019 // Octo Telematics, the Rome-based provider of telematics and data analytics solutions for the auto insurance industry, has partnered with Qualitas, Mexico’s largest auto insurer with operations throughout Mexico, Latin...

Trump Expands Federal Reimbursement for Florida’s Hurricane Michael Cleanup

Jan 28 2019 // Florida will get potentially hundreds of million dollars for Hurricane Michael recovery after President Donald Trump agreed to expand the number of days the federal government will reimburse state and local governments for...

Death in the Oilfields: Boom Brings Mounting Risk of Death, Injuries

Dec 28 2018 // Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oilfields since he was 16 and acquired the traits that make a good driller: fortitude, intellect and a healthy respect for the power of a runaway gas well.And so, when...

New Suit Alleges Clergy Sex Abuse by New Mexico Priest

Dec 21 2018 // Another lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Church, alleging sexual abuse of a child by a now-deceased priest who once served at Our Lady of Health Parish in Las Cruces, N.M.It’s the latest in a string of...

Jury Awards $735K to Former Official at New Mexico Lab

Dec 17 2018 // A former Los Alamos National Laboratory official pushed out of his job amid controversy over his service on an electric co-op’s board has won a jury verdict against the lab’s former management company. The...

Woman Sues Hospital in New Mexico for Resuscitating Her

Dec 3 2018 // A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights.Lawyers for Jamie Sams filed a lawsuit in late November in New Mexico state district court against Santa Fe’s Christus...

Navajo Nation President Extends Crop Insurance Amid New Mexico Drought

Nov 21 2018 // Outgoing Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has extended the tribe’s crop insurance amid ongoing extreme drought conditions.The Gallup Independent reports Begaye signed the insurance contract earlier this month....