Latest New Mexico Headlines
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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...
$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...
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...
Tribe in New Mexico Requesting Federal Disaster Declaration for Flooding
Dec 11 2017 // New Mexico’s congressional delegation is asking the federal government for help as a Native American community in the state is recovering from the effects of severe weather and flooding. The delegation says a storm...
FAA Awards New Mexico Film Company First Drone Waiver
Dec 1 2017 // An Albuquerque, N.M. cinema drone company says the Federal Aviation Administration has issued it a waiver that will allow it to fly drones over cast and crews on film locations. Flytcam Motion Pictures Managing Partner...
Safety Concerns Remain at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site
Nov 29 2017 // A federal nuclear review panel still has some safety concerns about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s new multimillion-dollar storage facility for radioactive waste. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said in...
Wrong Walgreens Prescription Led New Mexico Man’s to Suicide Attempt, Suit States
Nov 8 2017 // A northern New Mexico man is suing Walgreens over claims a pharmacist erroneously filled a prescription for him, and that anti-anxiety drug led to a suicide attempt. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported an attorney for...
Workers at Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico Contaminated by Radioactive Material
Oct 30 2017 // Workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were contaminated after radioactive particles were released into the air inside the lab’s plutonium facility. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the lab...
Study Links Colorado, New Mexico Quakes to Oil and Gas Fluid Injections
Oct 26 2017 // A rash of earthquakes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico between 2008 and 2010 was likely due to fluids pumped deep underground during oil and gas wastewater disposal, according to a study from Colorado...
$65M of Unpaid Taxes by New Mexico Insurance Companies, Audit Shows
Oct 26 2017 // A long list of insurance companies failed to pay taxes on insurance premiums of nearly $65 million to the state of New Mexico since 2003, according to an independent audit released Tuesday that could weigh in ongoing legal...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires New Mexico’s Reynolds & Rodar Insurance Group
Oct 16 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Reynolds & Rodar Insurance Group Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With roots going back to 1882, Reynolds & Rodar is the oldest...
New Mexico Insurance Regulator Lowers Estimate for Missing Premium Taxes
Oct 4 2017 // New Mexico’s top insurance regulator says that an independent audit of unpaid insurance premium taxes shows far less money is owed to the state than previously thought. State Insurance Superintendent John Franchini...
New Mexico Prosecutor, Insurance Company Spar Over Premium Taxes
Sep 14 2017 // A standoff over millions of dollars in unpaid insurance premium taxes is escalating between New Mexico’s attorney general and the state’s largest health-care insurance provider. New Mexico Attorney General...
New Mexico Sues 8 Drug Manufacturers, Distributors over Opioid Epidemic
Sep 11 2017 // New Mexico has sued eight opioid manufacturers and wholesale distributors, becoming the latest state or local government to file a lawsuit seeking to hold corporations accountable for a national drug addiction...
Hub Acquires Assets of New Mexico-Based Bianchi
Aug 7 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Albuquerque, N.M.-based Bianchi & Assoc. Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Richard Bianchi, Bianchi’s president, will join Hub New Mexico and report to...
New Mexico Doctors Challenge Insurance Superintendent on Malpractice Fund
Aug 3 2017 // Four doctors are accusing New Mexico’s insurance superintendent of allowing major hospital chains to tap into a medical malpractice fund despite concerns of insufficient balances. State district court documents show...
Losses from Colorado Mine Spill Could Be Far Less than Feared
Apr 4 2017 // Economic damage from a Colorado mine waste spill caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be far less than originally feared after attorneys drastically reduced some of the larger claims, The Associated Press...
