Latest New Mexico Headlines
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New Mexico Gets $50M Tobacco Settlement Payment
Mar 31 2017 // New Mexico this year will receive the largest tobacco settlement payment it has ever received from the industry. The state attorney general’s office made the $50 million announcement this week, saying the payment...
New Mexico Lawsuit Challenges County’s Frack Sand Ban
Mar 27 2017 // A group of New Mexico property owners has sued Winona County over its ban on industrial mining of silica sand for use in hydraulic fracturing. The Southeast Minnesota Property Owners joined Saratoga Township resident Roger...
New Mexico City Settling Cell Beating Lawsuit for $400K
Mar 2 2017 // The city of Las Cruces, N.M. has agreed to pay $400,000 to a man who claims police officers used excessive force on him when he was detained in a holding cell. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported that the settlement figure...
Audit Shows Risk Management Fund for New Mexico City Being Drained by Suits
Feb 16 2017 // Legal settlements in law enforcement civil rights cases over the past five years have severely depleted Albuquerque, N.M.’s risk management fund, which pays for uninsured losses. In a letter to city officials, state...
Confie Acquires Auto Insurance America in Nevada and New Mexico
Jan 3 2017 // Confie has acquired Auto Insurance America from Western National Mutual Insurance Co. Auto Insurance America is a provider of non-standard auto insurance serving Nevada and New Mexico. The company has five locations in Las...
New Mexico Regulators Approve Reopening of Troubled Nuclear Dump
Dec 28 2016 // New Mexico regulators have approved restarting normal operations at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository, a major step for U.S. officials aiming to reopen the facility nearly three years after a...
New Mexico Farming Firm Expected to Lose $4M over Breach
Dec 27 2016 // A breach earlier this year in the water delivery system that serves Navajo Agricultural Products Industry is expected to end up costing the tribal business in New Mexico more than $4 million in lost revenue. The Daily...
New Mexico’s Mountain States Mutual to Merge with Donegal Mutual
Dec 21 2016 // New Mexico’s Mountain States Mutual Casualty Co. is merging into Pennsylvania-based Donegal Mutual Insurance Co., the insurers announced. Donegal Mutual will be the surviving company in the merger, and Mountain...
New Mexico’s Auditor Wants Second Audit Of Insurance Taxes
Nov 30 2016 // New Mexico’s state auditor is calling for a new audit into whether health-insurance companies have been underpaying the premium taxes they owe. The Albuquerque Journal reported that State Auditor Tim Keller asked...
New Mexico Insurance Regulator Says Back Taxes Audit Inaccurate
Nov 21 2016 // New Mexico’s superintendent of insurance is saying an audit into his office’s failure to collect some $190 million in back taxes from insurers was based on incorrect data. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that...
New Mexico Workers’ Comp Costs May Drop in 2017
Nov 7 2016 // New Mexico employers could see a decrease in their insurance costs for on-the-job injuries and deaths. The state Office of Superintendent of Insurance says a key factor in calculating individual employers’...
Immigrant License Applications in New Mexico Slow as Cutoff Approaches
Oct 31 2016 // The number of immigrants seeking driver’s licenses in New Mexico has slowed but remains on pace to reach a four-year high as a deadline approaches to comply with federal ID requirements, according to a review by The...
New Mexico Workers’ Comp Costs May Drop in 2017
Oct 25 2016 // New Mexico employers could see a decrease in their insurance costs for on-the-job injuries and deaths. The state Office of Superintendent of Insurance says a key factor in calculating individual employers’...
New Mexico Driver’s License Revamp Draws Fresh Criticism
Oct 21 2016 // New Mexico officials ran into fresh criticism Tuesday about revisions to the state’s immigrant driver’s license law at a public hearing on the proposed regulations. The Department of Taxation and Revenue has...
New Mexico Regulator Seeks More Time to go after Back Taxes from Insures
Oct 3 2016 // New Mexico’s superintendent of insurance pleaded Wednesday for more time to recover unpaid taxes on insurance premiums and investigate at least one company, after an outside audit uncovered $193 million in...
New Mexico to go after $193M in Premium Taxes
Sep 23 2016 // New Mexico failed to collect at least $193 million in taxes on insurance premiums over the past five years, even as the state struggles this year to close a major budget shortfall, according to an independent review of...
Hailstorm Caused $4M in Damage to City in New Mexico
Sep 23 2016 // A small city in southeastern New Mexico is recovering after being hit with a strong hailstorm. The Hobbs News-Sun reported that Jal was struck this weekend with hailstones bigger than golf balls that caused an estimated $4...
Dead New Mexico Woman’s Family Sues Bar over Lewd Corndog Contest
Aug 22 2016 // A New Mexico family is suing the owners of a shuttered Albuquerque night club, their former landlord and a liquor license-holder after a woman choked during a corndog eating contest and suffered fatal brain damage. The...
Dead New Mexico Woman’s Family Sues Bar over Lewd Corndog Contest
Aug 12 2016 // A New Mexico family is suing the owners of a shuttered Albuquerque night club, their former landlord and a liquor license-holder after a woman choked during a corndog eating contest and suffered fatal brain damage. The...
New Mexico Village Gets $2.4M for Repairs from 2008 Storms
Jul 5 2016 // The village of Ruidoso in New Mexico will receive more than $2.4 million from the federal government to help with the cost of repairing sewer pipes damaged by storms and flooding nearly eight years ago. Members of New...
