New Mexico Truck Accident Cases

Late last month, a terrifying accident occurred just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico when a tractor trailer carrying a tank of water was rear-ended by another semi-truck and spilled its contents on the road, causing the second truck to overturn and leading to a complete closure of the westbound lanes of I-40 for several hours. Luckily,... read more

In an interesting decision that was published on February 24, 2014, the New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, who had filed suit against an Insurance Company after being involved in a semi-truck accident. In Lucero v. Northland Insurance Company, NMCA 2014 (docket No. 32426), the Court decided that a semi-tractor... read more

The New Mexico federal court’s ruling in Tom vs SB Inc. denied the defendants’ requests to enter evidence of adjustments they had made to the time logging practices that their semi-truck drivers used. This ruling demonstrates that many commercial semi-truck drivers fail to keep the required time logs, and even when they keep a time... read more