Latest Mexico Headlines

All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.

New Mexico Legislature Weighs Insurance Fraud Bills

Jan 23 2009 // The New Mexico Legislature is evaluating two insurance fraud bills this session. Both SB 117 and SB 118 were introduced by Republican Sen. Carroll H. Leavell. SB 117 would allow courts to aggregate six months of faluse...

Brown & Brown Acquires New Mexico’s Charter Insurance

Dec 18 2008 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced the asset acquisition of Charter Insurance Services, Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Charter Insurance Services, Inc., with annualized revenues of approximately $1.1 million, focuses on...

New California-Mexico Border Crossing To Open in San Diego

Dec 12 2008 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined federal and state officials from the United States and Mexico to announce the issuance of a federal permit that clears the way to create a new California-Mexico border crossing...

S&P Affirms Allianz Mexico Ratings; Outlook Stable

Dec 8 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its ‘A-‘ global financial strength rating and its ‘mxAAA’ national scale rating on Mexico-based Allianz Mexico Compañía de Seguros S.A....

Don’t Just Translate It

Nov 30 2008 // Don’t bring Anglo assumptions to the media planning and buying process.Your new advertising campaign is so successful, you’ve decided to communicate to your Hispanic customers. Great idea. After all, Hispanic...

Don’t Just Translate It

Nov 30 2008 // Don’t bring Anglo assumptions to the media planning and buying process.Your new advertising campaign is so successful, you’ve decided to communicate to your Hispanic customers. Great idea. After all, Hispanic...

Don’t Just Translate It

Nov 16 2008 // Your new advertising campaign is so successful, you’ve decided to communicate to your Hispanic customers.Great idea. After all, Hispanic purchasing power in the United States has surged to nearly $700 billion. That...

Medicus Appoints Johnson as VP and Chief Financial Officer

Nov 13 2008 // Austin, Texas-based specialty physician liability insurer Medicus Insurance Company appointed Mark D. Johnson as vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 13, 2008. Johnson succeeds Gerald Whelply, who...

U.S.-Mexico Cross Border Trucking Project Extended for Two More Years

Nov 5 2008 // The U.S. Department of Transportation recently extended for two years the cross-border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the U.S....

Fire-Charred New Mexico Mountains Fuel Policy Debate

Oct 24 2008 // Along a twisting dirt road in the heart of New Mexico’s Manzano Mountains was a piece of property that caught Paul Davis’ eye. There was a lush meadow, a stream on one side and an expansive hill covered with...

Don’t Just Translate It into Spanish

Oct 20 2008 // Your new advertising campaign is so successful, you’ve decided to communicate to your Hispanic customers.Great idea. After all, Hispanic purchasing power in the U.S. has surged to nearly $700 billion. That growth is...

Assessment of Ike’s Environmental Damage Begins

Oct 20 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage is now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled...

Cross-Border Trucking, Competitiveness Concerns in Arizona

Oct 20 2008 // Being the sixth-largest state in the nation, and one of the fastest-growing, makes Arizona an attractive place to live and do business. And that means the state is desirable from an insurance perspective, too, according to...

Crime Prevention Program Comes to Texas/Mexico Border

Oct 15 2008 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has joined with the Texas Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority and the Del Rio, Laredo and Brownville Police Departments in a crime prevention campaign aimed at preventing...

AIR Describes Hurricane Norbert’s Passage over Baja California, Mexico

Oct 13 2008 // AIR Worldwide’s latest bulletin on Pacific Ocean Hurricane Norbert traces the storm’s passage over the southern Baja Peninsula, the Gulf of California, and its eventual landfall on the west coast of Mexico....

Medicus Names Johnson Chief Financial Officer

Oct 10 2008 // Austin, Texas-based Medicus Insurance Company has appointed Mark D. Johnson as vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 13, 2008. Johnson succeeds Gerald Whelply, who has resigned for personal...

Investigation: Ike’s Toll on Environment a Heavy One

Oct 7 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil...

Ferocious Hurricane Ike in Gulf of Mexico, Headed for Texas

Sep 11 2008 // Hurricane Ike gathered strength as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters Thursday on a track that would skirt the heart of the U.S. offshore oil patch before slamming into the Texas coast late Friday or...

Hurricane Ike over Cuba, Heading for US Gulf Coast

Sep 8 2008 // Hurricane Ike is not yet weakening over Cuba and will likely reach the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane before taking aim at the oil-rich Texas-Louisiana coast later in the week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center...

Estimate of Insured Losses from Gustav Between $2 and $4.5 Billion

Sep 2 2008 // One risk modeling firm estimates that insured losses to onshore properties in the U.S. are between $2 billion and $4.5 billion, with an expected loss of $3 billion due to Hurricane Gustav. According to AIR Worldwide...