Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fire-Charred New Mexico Mountains Fuel Policy Debate
Oct 24 2008 // Along a twisting dirt road in the heart of New Mexico’s Manzano Mountains was a piece of property that caught Paul Davis’ eye. There was a lush meadow, a stream on one side and an expansive hill covered with...
Don’t Just Translate It into Spanish
Oct 20 2008 // Why Advertising for Hispanic Consumers Should be Written in Spanish Your new advertising campaign is so successful, you’ve decided to communicate to your Hispanic customers. Great idea. After all, Hispanic purchasing...
Assessment of Ike’s Environmental Damage Begins
Oct 20 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage is now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled...
Cross-Border Trucking, Competitiveness Concerns in Arizona
Oct 20 2008 // Being the sixth-largest state in the nation, and one of the fastest-growing, makes Arizona an attractive place to live and do business. And that means the state is desirable from an insurance perspective, too, according to...
Crime Prevention Program Comes to Texas/Mexico Border
Oct 15 2008 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has joined with the Texas Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority and the Del Rio, Laredo and Brownville Police Departments in a crime prevention campaign aimed at preventing...
AIR Describes Hurricane Norbert’s Passage over Baja California, Mexico
Oct 13 2008 // AIR Worldwide’s latest bulletin on Pacific Ocean Hurricane Norbert traces the storm’s passage over the southern Baja Peninsula, the Gulf of California, and its eventual landfall on the west coast of Mexico....
Medicus Names Johnson Chief Financial Officer
Oct 10 2008 // Austin, Texas-based Medicus Insurance Company has appointed Mark D. Johnson as vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 13, 2008. Johnson succeeds Gerald Whelply, who has resigned for personal...
Investigation: Ike’s Toll on Environment a Heavy One
Oct 7 2008 // Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil...
Ferocious Hurricane Ike in Gulf of Mexico, Headed for Texas
Sep 11 2008 // Hurricane Ike gathered strength as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters Thursday on a track that would skirt the heart of the U.S. offshore oil patch before slamming into the Texas coast late Friday or...
Hurricane Ike over Cuba, Heading for US Gulf Coast
Sep 8 2008 // Hurricane Ike is not yet weakening over Cuba and will likely reach the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane before taking aim at the oil-rich Texas-Louisiana coast later in the week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center...
Estimate of Insured Losses from Gustav Between $2 and $4.5 Billion
Sep 2 2008 // One risk modeling firm estimates that insured losses to onshore properties in the U.S. are between $2 billion and $4.5 billion, with an expected loss of $3 billion due to Hurricane Gustav. According to AIR Worldwide...
U.S.-Mexico Cross Border Trucking Project Extended for 2 More Years
Sep 1 2008 // In early August 2008 the U.S. Department of Transportation extended for two years the cross border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate...
Business Moves
Sep 1 2008 // EPIC Expanding its Southern California operations, Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC), a property and casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage firm, opened an office in Los Angeles. Chris McTigue was...
New Mexico Court: Class Actions Can’t Be Barred in Small Claims
Sep 1 2008 // The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that contractual prohibitions on class actions for small consumer claims violates public policy and is therefore unenforceable. According to Robert Fiser, individually and as a...
U.S.-Mexico Cross Border Trucking Project Extended for Two More Years
Sep 1 2008 // In early August 2008, the U.S. Department of Transportation extended for two years the cross-border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate...
Oil Industry Battens Down As Gustav Threatens Gulf
Aug 28 2008 // Oil companies ramped up preparations to evacuate some facilities as Hurricane Gustav made its way toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, becoming a potential threat to the region’s extensive oil and natural gas...
Forecasters Warn Gustav Could be Major Hurricane When It Reaches Gulf States Monday
Aug 28 2008 // Tropical Storm Gustav shifted course slightly on Thursday morning and moved toward the Jamaica, and forecasters predicted it would be a powerful hurricane by the time it reaches the Gulf of Mexico. “The re-formation...
New Mexico Court: Class Actions Can’t Be Barred in Small Claims
Aug 20 2008 // The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that contractual prohibitions on class actions for small consumer claims violates public policy and is therefore unenforceable. According to Robert Fiser, individually and as a...
Bush Declares Disaster for Two New Mexico Counties
Aug 18 2008 // President Bush has declared a disaster in two southern New Mexico counties due to severe flooding that killed one man, destroyed homes, washed out bridges and prompted hundreds of rescues last month. Gov. Bill Richardson...
New Mexico Governor Proposes $3.6 M Flood Recovery
Aug 11 2008 // New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is proposing $3.6 million in state aid to help the Ruidoso area recover from massive flooding in July. Richardson announced the proposed emergency relief package during a trip to Ruidoso and...
