Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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’...
Appeals Court OKs Affordable Care Act’s Risk Payments to Insurers
Jan 2 2020 // A U.S. appeals court upheld the validity of a federal program governing the payment of billions of dollars to insurers under the Affordable Care Act, reversing a lower court ruling that had prompted the White House to...
AXA XL Buys London-Based Title Insurance Agency, Agrees to Buy Mexico Title Insurer
Nov 27 2019 // AXA XL announced it has completed the acquisition of Secure Legal Title Ltd., a London-based insurance agency and Lloyd’s approved coverholder, with operations in the U.K., Europe, India and the Americas. Founded in...
Trump Signs Month-Long Government Funding That Includes Flood Insurance Program
Nov 21 2019 // President Donald Trump signed legislation on Thursday that will extend funding for a wide range of federal agencies through Dec. 20 and avoid partial government shutdowns that otherwise would have begun on Friday. An...
Mexicans Sue Walmart Over Deadly Texas Shooting
Nov 21 2019 // Ten Mexican citizens have sued Walmart over the shooting at a store in the U.S. border town of El Paso, Texas, that killed eight Mexicans and left eight more injured, saying that Walmart did not do enough to protect its...
New Mexico Insurance Commissioner Franchini to Retire
Nov 18 2019 // New Mexico’s top insurance regulator is stepping down. The Albuquerque Journal reported that state Superintendent John Franchini has withdrawn his application to serve a third four-year term and instead plans to...
