Question 1

What personal injury case types do you cover in New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Premises liability and slip and fall are our headline New Mexico categories: big-box and grocery (Walmart, Sam's Club, Target, Costco, Albertsons, Smith's, Sprouts), restaurant and hotel, parking lot, apartment complex, condominium common areas, and shopping-center files. We also cover auto / car accident, truck and 18-wheeler (I-40 long-haul, I-25, I-10, US-285 Permian Basin), motorcycle, rideshare (Uber and Lyft), pedestrian and bicyclist, common-law dog bite, wrongful death, oilfield third-party trucking (Permian Basin counties Lea, Eddy, Chaves), construction and workplace, and product. Most firms buying NM leads from us mix a heavy slip-and-fall and big-box premises base with steady auto and Permian-corridor trucking flow.

Question 2

How does New Mexico premises liability law work?

Accepted Answer

Klopp v. Wackenhut Corp., 113 N.M. 153, 824 P.2d 293 (1992) is the modern statement. New Mexico retains the invitee/licensee/trespasser distinctions but has merged the duty owed to invitees and licensees into a unitary "ordinary care under the circumstances" standard, and rejected the open-and-obvious-danger doctrine as a complete bar. An occupier owes invitees ordinary care to keep the premises safe; comparative-fault principles allocate fault when the danger was open and obvious. Duty is calibrated to the defendant's degree of control over the premises or instrumentality. Surveillance preservation, prior-complaint discovery, and incident-report status drive NM slip-and-fall outcomes. The absence of a general PI noneconomic cap supports the upper end of severe-injury premises files.

Question 3

How much do New Mexico premises liability and slip-and-fall leads cost?

Accepted Answer

New Mexico premises and slip-and-fall lead pricing tracks the Google Ads auction. Personal injury commercial-intent CPCs across New Mexico generally run $50 to $180, with Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces at the top end and Permian Basin counties (Lea, Eddy, Chaves), Farmington (San Juan), and rural counties meaningfully lower. We price per lead with no minimums and no contracts.

Question 4

What is the statute of limitations for New Mexico personal injury claims?

Accepted Answer

Three years from the date of injury under NMSA § 37-1-8 for most personal injury claims, including premises, slip and fall, dog bite, auto, and product. The clock runs from the date of injury, not the date of the negligent act; tolled for legal disability under NMSA § 37-1-10 and for fraudulent concealment. Wrongful death runs on a separate 3-year clock from the date of death under NMSA § 41-2-2. New Mexico Tort Claims Act notice under NMSA § 41-4-16 requires written notice within 90 days of occurrence; wrongful-death notice within 6 months. Failure to give timely notice is jurisdictional. NMTCA caps under NMSA § 41-4-19 (per single occurrence): $200,000 for real-property damage, $300,000 for medical and medically related expenses, $400,000 per person for all other damages; bars punitives and PJI against governmental entities.

Question 5

How does New Mexico's pure comparative fault rule affect premises and PI cases?

Accepted Answer

New Mexico is one of only ~13 PURE comparative fault jurisdictions and the ONLY one in the Mountain West. The rule comes from Scott v. Rizzo, 96 N.M. 682, 634 P.2d 1234 (1981). Recovery is permitted at any plaintiff fault percentage; damages reduced proportionally. Several liability is the default after Bartlett v. New Mexico Welding Supply, 98 N.M. 152 (Ct. App. 1982), so the empty-chair defense survives on multi-defendant files. Open and obvious danger is not a complete defense (Klopp). Borderline-fault NM PI leads (slip-and-fall with prior wet-floor warning posted, premises files where plaintiff partially ignored a marked hazard) are flagged at intake for additional context and not auto-rejected.

Question 6

Does New Mexico cap PI noneconomic damages?

Accepted Answer

No general cap on PI noneconomic damages on standard premises, auto, or non-med-mal cases. Medical malpractice has a tiered cap structure under NMSA § 41-5-1 et seq. (as amended by 2021 SB 21), with hospitals and hospital-controlled outpatient facilities capped at $4,000,000 (2022) scaling to $6,000,000 (2026) plus annual CPI thereafter, independent outpatient facilities at a substantially lower tier, and individual physicians and independent providers at a separate lower tier; past and future medical and related expenses are EXCLUDED from the med-mal cap. The med-mal cap does not apply to general PI. Punitive damages have no statutory cap and are subject to constitutional review under State Farm v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003) (single-digit ratio guidepost).

Question 7

How do you handle Permian Basin oilfield third-party trucking files?

Accepted Answer

Permian Basin oilfield activity in Lea (Hobbs), Eddy (Carlsbad), and Chaves (Roswell) counties drives heavy third-party trucking and equipment-failure files outside the workers' compensation exclusive remedy. We screen oilfield files for direct-employer status (workers' comp bar), non-employer co-tortfeasors (drilling contractors, frac/wireline crews, transport companies, equipment manufacturers, premises owners), Master Service Agreement (MSA) and indemnity disputes, and FMCSA hours-of-service compliance and equipment-maintenance records on commercial-vehicle facts. US-285 (Carlsbad to Roswell to Santa Fe) is the dominant Permian oilfield trucking corridor.

Question 8

How do you handle tribal-jurisdiction analysis on NM PI files?

Accepted Answer

New Mexico has 23 federally recognized tribes including the Navajo Nation, 19 Pueblos (e.g., Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Sandia, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni, Ohkay Owingeh), Jicarilla Apache, Mescalero Apache, and Fort Sill Apache. Civil-jurisdiction analysis on PI files involving tribal-land situs or tribal-member parties follows Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 544 (1981) and progeny: tribal courts generally lack jurisdiction over non-members absent (1) consensual relationship, or (2) conduct threatening tribal self-government, health, or welfare. We capture tribal-status indicators at intake (tribal enrollment, incident locus on tribal-fee or trust land, defendant tribal status) so firms can run their own jurisdiction analysis before opening a file.

Question 9

How will the 1/1/2026 mandatory UM/UIM mandate affect Albuquerque-area auto files?

Accepted Answer

UM/UIM coverage was historically a mandatory offer under NMSA § 66-5-301 with written rejection allowed. Effective January 1, 2026, UM/UIM coverage becomes MANDATORY in New Mexico (no opt-out permitted). The change materially eliminates one of the historic recovery gaps on uninsured-motorist files going forward; pre-2026 files remain on the prior opt-out regime, which can leave the carrier-insured-driver math very different across the boundary date. Stacking is permitted, which materially expands recovery on multi-policy files. Albuquerque and Las Cruces metro areas with elevated uninsured-driver rates benefit disproportionately from the new mandate.

Question 10

Any contracts, minimums, or setup fees?

Accepted Answer

None. No monthly minimums, no subscriptions, no setup fees for standard onboarding. Pay per lead. Pause or resume anytime. Invalid leads are replaced under our standard policy.

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