All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 30 2018 // Testing has found that there’s asbestos nearly everywhere in an abandoned Alamogordo, N.M. apartment complex, a finding that complicates the city’s desire to demolish the dilapidated property.The Alamogordo...
Apr 23 2018 // The Small Business Administration says disaster loans are available to small nonfarm businesses in 13 counties in New Mexico and one in Arizona to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in two...
Apr 16 2018 // The investigation into the cause of a structural failure of a coal silo at a power plant in northwestern New Mexico is ongoing, but the plant’s operator says repairs are underway.Officials with Public Service Co. of...
Apr 12 2018 // Forecasters with the National Weather Service are warning that parts of New Mexico are in for more windy conditions later this week and that means higher fire danger.They say a deep low pressure system in the Great Basin...
Mar 28 2018 // The family of a teenager who died after a bull riding competition is suing the organizers of the 2016 event.Brandon Charley died in Fruitland, N.M., while riding a bull named WhooWee. The lawsuit filed in state district...
Mar 26 2018 // Ocean International Reinsurance Co. Ltd. has opened a representative office in Mexico to be headed by Rebecca Peña.The office was opened in Feb. 19, 2018, after receiving regulatory approval from Mexico’s National...
Mar 21 2018 // New Mexico’s DWI fatalities dropped 16 percent in 2017 from the previous year.Gov. Susana Martinez announced the decrease of alcohol-related fatalities from 173 in 2016 to 145 in 2017 on Friday as she said law...
Mar 5 2018 // Market Detail: Rockwood Brokerage (www.rockwoodbrokerage.com) serves as the exclusive national administrator of an errors & omissions (E&O) product designed to address the unique professional liability exposures...
Feb 19 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck.The 2011 crash west of Las Cruces killed three people including...
Feb 12 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck.Las Cruces Sun-News reports the 2011 crash west of Las Cruces...
Feb 12 2018 // New Mexico State Forestry officials say they already are anticipating an aggressive fire season, as 70 percent of the state is facing severe drought. KRQE-TV reports Forestry Division Official Greg Hesch says conditions...
Feb 7 2018 // Aon Securities, the investment banking division of reinsurance intermediary and capital adviser Aon Benfield, has assisted the World Bank in structuring the largest-ever catastrophe bond covering earthquake, which provides...
Feb 2 2018 // A $5 million settlement has been reached in the death of a man who surveillance video and records show was repeatedly denied medical care after becoming violently ill inside a county jail, according to court records...
Jan 24 2018 // Insured losses for last year’s 330 natural catastrophes reached US$134 billion, or 38 percent of their economic price tag of $353 billion, according to a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s...
Jan 22 2018 // Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico will pay $800,000 to its former chief financial officer to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that claimed the former superintendent placed him on paid leave for questioning district...
Dec 22 2017 // President Donald Trump has issued a disaster declaration for a New Mexico Native American community that is recovering from the effects of severe weather and flooding.The declaration announced Thursday by the White House...
Dec 19 2017 // Three offshore oil workers filed a lawsuit against units of Royal Dutch Shell and Enbridge, seeking $1 million in damages for injuries they allegedly received during a Nov. 8 fire on a U.S. Gulf of Mexico production...
Dec 18 2017 // A Texas pilot in early December pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and arson charges, associated with, among other things, intentionally crashing a plane in the Gulf of Mexico and destroying other expensive planes,...
Dec 11 2017 // A Texas pilot who survived a 2012 Gulf of Mexico plane crash and used an iPad to record his time in the water acknowledges it was insurance-related fraud.Theodore Robert Wright III pleaded guilty on Dec. 7 in Tyler to...
Dec 11 2017 // New Mexico’s congressional delegation is asking the federal government for help as a Native American community in the state is recovering from the effects of severe weather and flooding.The delegation says a storm in...