A purpose of this article is to regulate trade practices in the insurance business and related businesses in accordance in part with the intent of Congress as expressed in the Act of Congress approved March 9, 1945, being c. 20, 59 Stat. 33, also designated as 15 U.S.C. Secs. 1011 to 1015, inclusive, by defining, or providing for determination of, practices in this state which constitute unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices so defined or determined.
§ 59A-16-2 NMSA 1978
Purpose of article
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Coll v. First American Title Insurance (2011)
Most recently applied in Bhasker v. Kemper Cas. Ins. Co. (February 2019)
Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 270.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.