Latest Mexico Headlines
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Some Gulf of Mexico Oil Rigs Evacuate Workers as Tropical Storm Cristobal Threatens
Jun 3 2020 // BP Plc began turning off production at three platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico and evacuating workers because of the threat from Tropical Storm Cristobal, forecast to make landfall in Louisiana over the weekend, the...
Farm Workers Getting Sick, Spreading Coronavirus As Peak Produce Season Begins
May 29 2020 // All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for Covid-19 this month. In New Jersey, more than 50 workers had the virus at a farm in Gloucester County, adding to nearly 60 who fell ill in...
New Mexico Hospital Paying to Settle Retaliation Claim
May 22 2020 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a northern New Mexico hospital will pay $98,000 to settle a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the agency. The case against Christus St. Vincent Regional...
New Mexico Man’s Body Mutilated to Fit in Coffin, Lawsuit Charges
May 12 2020 // A New Mexico funeral home broke the legs of the body of a tall man so he could fit into a smaller coffin, a new lawsuit said. The family of Dakota Powell filed last week a lawsuit in state district court against French...
New Mexico Man Sues After Being Injured in Chase, Crash
May 11 2020 // A man has sued a New Mexico State Police officer who crashed into his vehicle in January 2019 while chasing a truck near Espanola. Rudy Vialpando, 62, said he suffered spinal fractures and injuries to his ribs and right...
New Mexico Forest Official Cites Rising Risk of Human-Caused Wildfires
May 11 2020 // The top administrator of a national forest in northern New Mexico says there’s an elevated risk of human-caused wildfires due to drying conditions and negligence by some forest visitors. Carson National Forest...
BRP Group Acquires Pendulum in New Mexico
May 1 2020 // A subsidiary of BRP Group Inc. has acquired the assets comprising the risk assessment and consulting business of Pendulum LLC, an Albuquerque, N.M.-based firm. The business acquired from Pendulum generated annual revenues...
New Mexico Mom Suing Company for Overturned Bounce House That Trapped Children
Apr 17 2020 // A Santa Fe, N.M., woman is suing Meow Wolf after she says her children were injured when wind overturned the arts and entertainment company’s rented-bounce house. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports attorneys for Anita...
New Mexico to Use Satellite Tracking During Wildfire Season
Apr 1 2020 // New Mexico has a new tool that could help crews get an early jump on any wildfires that might break out. The State Forestry Division will be getting real-time alerts via a satellite tracking system designed by the Santa...
Lawsuit Alleges Bullet at New Mexico School Harmed Student
Mar 31 2020 // The family of a boy is suing a police officer who mistakenly fired his weapon inside a southern New Mexico middle school and nearly hit the student. The family recently filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against...
New Mexico District Settles for $475K After Teacher Punched 9-Year-Old
Mar 17 2020 // A New Mexico school district has agreed to pay $475,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a boy who was punched by a music teacher. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports a copy of the settlement says New Mexico Public...
Section of Route 66 in New Mexico Seeing Numerous Fatal Pedestrian Crashes
Mar 10 2020 // Nearly one in five fatal pedestrian crashes in New Mexico’s largest city last year occurred in a dimly lighted and highly congested section of historic Route 66 – an area plagued by poverty. An analysis by the...
New Mexico AG Sues Google for Collecting Personal Data of School Children
Mar 9 2020 // New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a lawsuit against Google LLC alleging the tech giant is illegally collecting personal information from New Mexico school children under 13 in violation of the Federal...
ExxonMobil Paying $1M as Part of New Mexico Settlement
Mar 3 2020 // ExxonMobil will contribute $500,000 to a fund used to clean up leaks from petroleum storage tanks as part of a settlement reached with New Mexico. The settlement stems from a 2010 lawsuit that alleged the company used...
New Mexico AG Sues Google for Collecting Personal Data of School Children
Feb 21 2020 // New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has filed a lawsuit against Google LLC alleging the tech giant is illegally collecting personal information from New Mexico school children under 13 in violation of the Federal...
Black Woman, County Settle New Mexico Profiling Lawsuit for $100K
Feb 21 2020 // New Mexico’s largest county has reached a racial profiling settlement with a black woman who was stopped by deputies three times in less than a month but never cited. Bernalillo County and Sherese Crawford reached a...
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010 Was Bigger Than Satellite Images Showed
Feb 14 2020 // Toxic and invisible oil spread well beyond the known satellite footprint of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new study. Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel school of Marine and...
New Mexico State University Wrongly Fired Professor, Lawsuit Charges
Jan 23 2020 // A former criminal justice professor at New Mexico State University says he lost his job in retaliation for reporting misconduct at his department. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports Francisco Alatorre last month filed a...
Lawsuit Accuses Police in New Mexico of Wrongful Death
Jan 13 2020 // A lawsuit accuses Albuquerque police of wrongfully killing a pipe-wielding man during a 2018 encounter in a home after officers found him hiding in a closet. The lawsuit filed last week by 24-year-old Daniel...
Top Workers’ Comp Story of 2019: Berkshire Hathaway’s Sale of Applied Underwriters
Jan 2 2020 // The news that Berkshire Hathaway was in talks to sell its workers’ compensation unit, Applied Underwriters, caught readers’ attention in February and was easily Insurance Journal’s biggest workers’...
