Latest Mexico Headlines
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What NOAA Forecasts for 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season
May 25 2018 // On the heels of the costliest hurricane year on record, the Atlantic is expected to produce five to nine of the mighty storms during the six-month season that starts June 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Woman Awarded $1.2M in New Mexico Stolen Car Crash
May 22 2018 // A Santa Fe County, N.M. jury has awarded an 80-year-old woman more than $1.2 million after she was injured in a crash involving a stolen car chased by Santa Fe police. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the jury decided that...
Robots, Drones Changing How Oil Firms Handle Dangerous Offshore Work
May 13 2018 // At BP’s massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor. Before MaggHD,...
4.6M Quake Shakes Gulf of Mexico Near Louisiana Coast
May 8 2018 // A light earthquake has shaken the Gulf of Mexico south of the Louisiana coast. The United State Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 struck around noon Sunday. The quake happened about...
Asbestos Found Throughout Giant New Mexico Apartment Complex
Apr 30 2018 // Testing has found that there’s asbestos nearly everywhere in an abandoned Alamogordo, N.M. apartment complex, a finding that complicates the city’s desire to demolish the dilapidated property. The Alamogordo...
SBA Loans Made Available in New Mexico, Arizona for Drought Economic Injury
Apr 23 2018 // The Small Business Administration says disaster loans are available to small nonfarm businesses in 13 counties in New Mexico and one in Arizona to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in two...
New Mexico Utility Says Insurance to Help Pay for Coal Silo Failure
Apr 16 2018 // The investigation into the cause of a structural failure of a coal silo at a power plant in northwestern New Mexico is ongoing, but the plant’s operator says repairs are underway. Officials with Public Service Co. of...
Red Flag Warnings Point to High Fire Danger for Parts of New Mexico
Apr 12 2018 // Forecasters with the National Weather Service are warning that parts of New Mexico are in for more windy conditions later this week and that means higher fire danger. They say a deep low pressure system in the Great Basin...
Family Files Suit Over Teen’s Death After New Mexico Rodeo Competition
Mar 28 2018 // The family of a teenager who died after a bull riding competition is suing the organizers of the 2016 event. Brandon Charley died in Fruitland, N.M., while riding a bull named WhooWee. The lawsuit filed in state district...
Ocean International Reinsurance Opens Representative Office in Mexico
Mar 26 2018 // Ocean International Reinsurance Co. Ltd. has opened a representative office in Mexico to be headed by Rebecca Peña. The office was opened in Feb. 19, 2018, after receiving regulatory approval from Mexico’s National...
DWI Fatalities New Mexico Fell 16 Percent in a Year
Mar 21 2018 // New Mexico’s DWI fatalities dropped 16 percent in 2017 from the previous year. Gov. Susana Martinez announced the decrease of alcohol-related fatalities from 173 in 2016 to 145 in 2017 on Friday as she said law...
New Markets
Mar 5 2018 // Insurance Broker / Large Retail Agent Errors & Omissions Market Detail: Rockwood Brokerage (www.rockwoodbrokerage.com) serves as the exclusive national administrator of an errors & omissions (E&O) product...
New Mexico Appeals Court Upholds Ruling in $165M Suit Against FedEx
Feb 19 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck. The 2011 crash west of Las Cruces killed three people...
New Mexico Appeals Court Upholds Ruling in $165M Suit Against FedEx
Feb 12 2018 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling in a $165 million lawsuit against FedEx filed after a deadly accident involving a contracted FedEx truck. Las Cruces Sun-News reports the 2011 crash west of Las Cruces...
State Forestry: New Mexico Could See Worst Fire Season in Decade
Feb 12 2018 // New Mexico State Forestry officials say they already are anticipating an aggressive fire season, as 70 percent of the state is facing severe drought. KRQE-TV reports Forestry Division Official Greg Hesch says conditions...
Aon Securities Structures Largest-Ever Earthquake Catastrophe Bond for World Bank
Feb 7 2018 // Aon Securities, the investment banking division of reinsurance intermediary and capital adviser Aon Benfield, has assisted the World Bank in structuring the largest-ever catastrophe bond covering earthquake, which provides...
$5M Settlement Reached in New Mexico Jail Death
Feb 2 2018 // A $5 million settlement has been reached in the death of a man who surveillance video and records show was repeatedly denied medical care after becoming violently ill inside a county jail, according to court records...
Insured Natural Disaster Losses in 2017 Were 38% of Economic Costs of $353B: Aon
Jan 24 2018 // Insured losses for last year’s 330 natural catastrophes reached US$134 billion, or 38 percent of their economic price tag of $353 billion, according to a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s...
New Mexico School District Settles Suit for $800K with Former Employee
Jan 22 2018 // Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico will pay $800,000 to its former chief financial officer to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that claimed the former superintendent placed him on paid leave for questioning district...
Trump Declares Disaster for New Mexico Native American Community
Dec 22 2017 // President Donald Trump has issued a disaster declaration for a New Mexico Native American community that is recovering from the effects of severe weather and flooding. The declaration announced Thursday by the White House...
