Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Martinez de la Fuente to Represent HCC in Latin America
Mar 1 2006 // Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that Luis R. Martinez de la Fuente has been retained as a consultant to assist the company’s planned international expansion in Latin America. Martinez, who has...
New Mexico considering commercial lines file and use system
Feb 20 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the insurance industry are working with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to finalize and implement proposed rate regulations that would convert...
News Currents
Feb 19 2006 // New Mexico considering commercial lines file and use system The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the insurance industry are working with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to finalize...
New Mexico set to better protect credit
Feb 6 2006 // New Mexico’s Personal Insurance Credit Information Act (PICIA) took effect Jan. 1. According to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association, PICIA requires insurance companies to limit the use of credit...
Best Affirms FSR for Mexico’s Grupo Nacional Provincial
Feb 3 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) of Grupo Nacional Provincial, S.A. (GNP) (Mexico City, Mexico). The rating outlook is stable. The rating reflects GNP’s solid risk-adjusted...
New Mexico Considering Commercial Lines File and Use System
Feb 2 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and the insurance industry are working with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to finalize and implement proposed rate regulations that would convert...
New Mexico’s Personal Insurance Credit Information Act Takes Effect
Jan 27 2006 // New Mexico Personal Insurance Credit Information Act (PICIA) took effect January 1, to help protect consumers’ and insurers’ use of credit. According to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association,...
Insurance Helps Santa Fe Museums with Art Acquisitions
Jan 23 2006 // New Mexico’s Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a 1923 Stuart Davis painting, while the private Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has announced it has acquired another O’Keeffe painting and works by eight other...
National Hurricane Center Releases Final Report on Hurricane Wilma
Jan 18 2006 // Hurricane Wilma hit densely populated South Florida at Category 2 strength, and it was stronger than originally estimated when it struck Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said in its final report on the storm. Most...
Suspected Arson Fire Contained in Small Northeastern Okla. Town
Jan 5 2006 // Firefighters contained a grass fire that destroyed an abandoned schoolhouse and a home in Shamrock, a small northeastern Oklahoma town, while officials in Texas and New Mexico also worked to keep fires under control amid...
FEMA Authorizes Millions to Assist Texas, Okla., N.M. Fight Fires
Jan 3 2006 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) this week authorized the use of federal funds from the Nation’s Disaster Relief Fund to help Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico...
People & Places
Jan 2 2006 // Brent Jenkins Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined...
People
Jan 1 2006 // Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined the P/C team at...
Insurance Helps Santa Fe Museums with Art Acquisitions
Dec 29 2005 // New Mexico’s Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a 1923 Stuart Davis painting, while the private Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has announced it has acquired another O’Keeffe painting and works by eight other...
New Mexico Capitol Building Evacuated After Pipe Break
Dec 12 2005 // New Mexico’s Capitol will remain closed this weekend because of a broken pipe that sent water dripping from the top floor to the basement. There was no immediate estimate of the damage, which Legislative Council...
National Assoc. of Insurance Commissioners Elects Officers
Dec 8 2005 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected regulators from Maine, Alabama, Kansas and New Mexico as the organization’s 2006 officers during the Association’s Winter National...
ING Comercial América Wins Mexican Appeal in Fertinal Claims Case
Dec 2 2005 // Dutch insurance and financial services giant ING got some welcome news from Mexico, when an Appellate court struck down a local court ruling that the insurer’s Mexican subsidiary ING Comercial América was liable to...
New Mexico Man Guilty in Crash that Killed Navajo Man
Nov 14 2005 // A former insurance claims adjuster has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a crash that killed a Navajo man south of Farmington, N.M., last November. Gregory LaDue’s attorney claimed the crash that killed...
PartnerRe Estimates Wilma Claims
Oct 26 2005 // Bermuda’s PartnerRe Ltd. has given the first estimations of its expected claims relating to Hurricane Wilma, following the hurricane’s passage through Mexico and south Florida over the last week. The estimates...
Wilma Ravages Yucatan for 2 days; Cuba Evacuates Coast
Oct 24 2005 // Hurricane Wilma lingered over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula for over 48 hours, lashing the resort areas of Cancun, Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel with 140 mph (225 km/hr) winds, torrential rains and a...
