All the headlines from our New Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 16 2004 // The high cost of medical care just got higher.R. Kevin Clinton, president of American Physicians Capital Inc., told leaders of the New Mexico Medical Society that medical malpractice insurance premiums have increased an...
Jul 6 2004 // Insurance Auto Auctions Inc., a provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, announced the opening of a new greenfield facility in El Paso, Texas. This new 8-acre facility will...
May 10 2004 // State Farm Insurance, New Mexico’s largest auto insurer, is lowering customer rates by an average of 5 percent statewide thanks to fewer claims.Illinois-based State Farm, which handles more than 282,400 insurance...
Apr 29 2004 // New Mexico is ready for step two in its effort to increase the number of insured vehicles on its roads: suspending the registration of nearly 300,000 uninsured vehicles.The suspensions, which will begin next week, are part...
Apr 26 2004 // Insurance companies in New Mexico may no longer exclude family members from coverage under so-called umbrella policies, the state Supreme Court has ruled in two cases involving auto accidents.Such exclusions “are...
Mar 22 2004 // The New Mexico legislature’s regular 30-day session adjourned Feb. 19. Although the New Mexico Constitution largely limits the scope of 30-day sessions to fiscal matters, the governor can ask legislators to consider...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Mar 1 2004 // The New Mexico legislature’s regular 30-day session adjourned at noon on Feb. 19, 2004. Although the New Mexico Constitution largely limits the scope of 30-day sessions to fiscal matters, the governor can ask...
Oct 6 2003 // Independent agent associations in Alabama, New Mexico and New York were recognized for their educational programs as the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) recently presented each of them with a...
Aug 12 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) led a delegation of property-casualty trade associations on Monday in urging New Mexico’s Blue Ribbon Tax Reform Commission to recommend real improvements to the state’s...
Jun 9 2003 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals recently rejected the theory of liability stacking with regard to automobile insurance, the American Insurance Association (AIA) reported. In the case of Linda Ann Slack, et al. v. James...
May 12 2003 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals recently rejected the theory of liability stacking with regard to automobile insurance, the American Insurance Association (AIA) reported.In the case of Linda Ann Slack, et al. v. James...
Apr 21 2003 // In recognition of today’s workers’ compensation marketplace, the New Mexico Division of Insurance has exempted workers’ compensation insurance rate filings from the 90-day waiting period required by state...
Oct 15 2002 // Judge Lorenzo Garcia of the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque New Mexico has upheld the ruling of a U.K. court in favor of Lloyd’s claims for a total of $2.8 million from six American investors, or...
Jun 14 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington has filed a court action seeking to persuade a New Mexico court not to impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio insurance consumers.Covington filed the...
Jun 13 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed a court action seeking to persuade a New Mexico court not to impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio insurance consumers.According to the Ohio...
May 7 2002 // InsuranceNoodle has achieved its goal of being licensed to sell small business insurance in every state in the continental United States, with the recent addition of New Mexico to the fold. “With the licensing of New...
Apr 30 2002 // Nevada Contractors Insurance has expanded its operations to offer workers’ compensation to contractors in New Mexico. The company, which is Nevada’s second largest insurer for workers’ comp insurance,...
Feb 25 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington filed a petition to intervene in a New Mexico lawsuit that, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance, could impose another state’s insurance laws and increased costs on Ohio...
Feb 22 2002 // Legislation supported by the American Insurance Association (AIA) to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in New Mexico was passed by the state legislature. The measure (SB 256), which passed last week with...