New Mexico Personal Injury Lawyer Resources

New Mexico is one of the most plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions in the country when it comes to fault allocation. The state follows pure comparative fault, which means an injured person can recover damages even when they were partly or mostly at fault. The award is simply reduced by the percentage of fault assigned to them. There is no cutoff that wipes out a case because the injured person is 51 percent responsible. That single rule changes the math of almost every negotiation with a New Mexico insurer.

New Mexico generally applies a three-year statute of limitations to personal injury claims, which is longer than many neighboring states. However, claims against government entities are governed by the New Mexico Tort Claims Act, which imposes a much shorter notice requirement and limits damages against public bodies. Medical malpractice and wrongful death cases follow their own rules. In my 32 years of practice, missed tort-claim notice deadlines are one of the most common ways strong New Mexico cases end before they even begin.

Goldberg & Loren handles New Mexico injury cases across the state: Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Rio Rancho, the Four Corners region, and the rural communities where the nearest major hospital can be hours away. Practice areas include auto and truck crashes, motorcycle wrecks, pedestrian and bicycle collisions, premises liability, dog bites, and wrongful death. George Goldberg founded the firm after beginning his career in 1994 defending airlines and insurers and switching to the plaintiff side in 1996, and that defense background helps us anticipate how New Mexico adjusters and defense firms will argue against every serious claim.

Below are our New Mexico articles and the FAQs we hear most often from clients in a first phone call.

If you were hurt anywhere in New Mexico, we offer a free, no-obligation consultation and you pay nothing unless we recover money for you. Call us 24/7 at 1-888-352-9243.