Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Mexico County to Pay $1.75M to Settle Suits over Deadly 2017 Shooting
Feb 6 2019 // New Mexico’s Bernalillo County will pay almost $2 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from a deputy’s 2017 fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects. KRQE-TV reports the county will make a $1.75...
Octo Telematics to Provide Commercial Fleet Telematics to Mexico Auto Insurer
Jan 30 2019 // Octo Telematics, the Rome-based provider of telematics and data analytics solutions for the auto insurance industry, has partnered with Qualitas, Mexico’s largest auto insurer with operations throughout Mexico, Latin...
Trump Expands Federal Reimbursement for Florida’s Hurricane Michael Cleanup
Jan 28 2019 // Florida will get potentially hundreds of million dollars for Hurricane Michael recovery after President Donald Trump agreed to expand the number of days the federal government will reimburse state and local governments for...
Death in the Oilfields: Boom Brings Mounting Risk of Death, Injuries
Dec 28 2018 // Parker Waldridge had worked in the Oklahoma oilfields since he was 16 and acquired the traits that make a good driller: fortitude, intellect and a healthy respect for the power of a runaway gas well. And so, when...
New Suit Alleges Clergy Sex Abuse by New Mexico Priest
Dec 21 2018 // Another lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Church, alleging sexual abuse of a child by a now-deceased priest who once served at Our Lady of Health Parish in Las Cruces, N.M. It’s the latest in a string of...
Jury Awards $735K to Former Official at New Mexico Lab
Dec 17 2018 // A former Los Alamos National Laboratory official pushed out of his job amid controversy over his service on an electric co-op’s board has won a jury verdict against the lab’s former management company. The...
Woman Sues Hospital in New Mexico for Resuscitating Her
Dec 3 2018 // A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights. Lawyers for Jamie Sams filed a lawsuit in late November in New Mexico state district court against Santa Fe’s Christus...
Navajo Nation President Extends Crop Insurance Amid New Mexico Drought
Nov 21 2018 // Outgoing Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has extended the tribe’s crop insurance amid ongoing extreme drought conditions. The Gallup Independent reports Begaye signed the insurance contract earlier this month....
Florida Picks Up the Pieces from Powerful Hurricane Michael
Nov 20 2018 // This photo shows debris and destruction in Mexico Beach, Fla., Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, after Hurricane Michael went through the area on Oct. 10. Mexico Beach, the ground-zero town, was nearly obliterated by the hurricane,....
Woman Sues Hospital in New Mexico for Resuscitating Her
Nov 19 2018 // A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights. The Albuquerque Journal reports lawyers for Jamie Sams filed a lawsuit last week in New Mexico state district court against...
Texas Pilot Who Crashed Plane for Insurance Sentenced to Prison
Nov 5 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case. Theodore Robert Wright III...
Insurer: Not liable for Claims of Embezzlement in New Mexico Matter
Oct 29 2018 // Another insurance company has gone to federal court in New Mexico to avoid paying millions of dollars in claims from victims whose trust funds and savings were embezzled. The Albuquerque Journal reported the Cincinnati...
Mexico Begins Digging Out from Destruction of Hurricane Willa
Oct 25 2018 // Residents on Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Wednesday began clearing up the wreckage left by Hurricane Willa, which ripped through towns overnight, tearing off rooftops, downing power lines and splitting trees...
Mexican Insurers Will Absorb Losses from Hurricane Willa: A.M. Best
Oct 25 2018 // Mexico’s insurance industry overall remains well-capitalized and can absorb the financial impact generated from Hurricane Willa, according to an A.M. Best briefing. Hurricane Willa made landfall on Oct. 23 on...
AXA Mexico Confirms Client Information, Resources Are Safe After Cyber Attack
Oct 25 2018 // AXA Mexico said the information and resources of its customers are safe and have not been affected by a cyber attack, which it discovered on Oct. 22. In a statement, AXA Mexico said that it had “identified anomalies...
Weakened Hurricane Willa Moves Inland from Mexico’s Pacific Coast
Oct 24 2018 // Willa’s fierce winds eased as the storm barreled inland over Mexico early on Wednesday, unleashing heavy rains after leaving power outages and toppled trees on the coast but causing no deaths, officials and...
AXA Cyber Attack Prompts Mexico Central Bank to Issue Security Alert
Oct 24 2018 // Mexico’s central bank said on Tuesday it had raised the security alert level in its payment system after a non-banking financial user reported “inconsistencies” in the cash payment matching...
Dangerous Hurricane Willa Heads to Pacific Coast of Mexico
Oct 23 2018 // Hurricane Willa, an extremely dangerous a Category 4 storm, weakened slightly as it veered toward popular tourist resorts on Mexico’s Pacific coast on Monday, prompting government warnings for people to leave...
Florida Residents Hit by Michael Return to Face Damage as Death Toll Climbs
Oct 19 2018 // More than a week after Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle, authorities are reporting three more deaths from the Category 4 storm as residents returning to their homes try to piece together their lives...
Texas Pilot Who Crashed Plane for Insurance Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme
Oct 17 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case. Theodore Robert Wright III...
