Doctors say a change to the state’s medical malpractice law means they can't get insurers to cover them, and they're searching for help at the Roundhouse.
Among the crime bills in the legislative session this year is one that would detain certain people before trial without bond based on a presumption that they’re too dangerous to be released. If this bill is passed, the cost to state and local general funds for keeping defendants jailed and providing public defenders until trial would be just over $15 million annually.
Barely a year after lawmakers slapped an emergency bandage on New Mexico’s revamped Medical Malpractice Act, doctors are again warning about a dire – if unintended – consequence.
From the Editorial Board: Recent progress against animal abuse is overshadowed by the fact that New Mexico is one of only two states where bestiality is not illegal.