Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Pemex Oil Firm ‘Unaffected’ by Cyber Attack, Says Mexican Minister; Workers Disagree
Nov 15 2019 // A cyber attack on computer networks of the Mexican national oil company Pemex is “totally under control” and did not have any negative consequences, Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said on Thursday. The attack...
AM Best Comments on California Insurance Co. Ratings Following Regulatory Action
Nov 13 2019 // AM Best on Wednesday said the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a” of California Insurance Co. and its pooled insurance affiliates, collectively referred to...
Ransomware Hackers Demand $5M from Mexico State Oil Firm Pemex
Nov 13 2019 // Hackers demanded about $5 million in bitcoin from Mexico’s Pemex, they told Reuters on Tuesday, saying the state oil firm missed a special discount by not paying immediately after a cyber attack that fouled up the...
Ransomware Attack Hits Mexico’s State Oil Firm Pemex
Nov 12 2019 // A ransomware attack hit computer servers and halted administrative work on Monday at Mexican state oil firm Pemex, according to employees and internal emails, in hackers’ latest bid to wring ransom from a major...
Court Orders California Insurance Company Conserved in Another Round in Applied Battle
Nov 5 2019 // Note: This story has been updated with a response from an Applied spokesman describing the actions by the California Department of Insurance as “an unusual Draconian attempt.” A San Mateo County Superior Court...
Sompo Global Risk Solutions Expands Mexico Capabilities, Hires Macias Romo
Oct 25 2019 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd. announced that the company has expanded its capabilities in Mexico with the addition of a new Sompo International Global Risk Solutions (GRS) team that will focus on serving clients in...
New Mexico Explains Role in Enabling Applied Underwriters Sale
Oct 24 2019 // The growing drama behind the $920 million sale of Berkshire Hathaway-owned Applied Underwriters to its founder Steven Menzies got another voice added to the story. The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance on...
Applied Underwriters Responds to California Department of Insurance Effort to Halt Sale
Oct 23 2019 // Applied Underwriters executives have responded to efforts by the California Department of Insurance to halt the sale of one of its subsidiaries and threaten to upend a reported $920 million deal that’s been in the...
California Balks at Applied Underwriters Sale, Questions Subsidiary’s Move to New Mexico
Oct 21 2019 // The California Department of Insurance has denied an application for approval of the sale of California Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Applied Underwriters that was sold in a massive deal that has been under scrutiny over...
