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A New Mexico jury found German device maker Biotronik and its sales representative liable for conspiring with a Las Cruces cardiologist and a hospital to implant medically unnecessary pacemakers in dozens of patients for profit.

A New Mexico jury found Utility Trailer Manufacturing negligent for failing to install side underride guards, awarding the family of a 16-year-old killed in a 2015 highway fire crash a net verdict of $18.9 million.

A federal judge awarded $10.55 million to the family of Esther Nakajjigo, a 25-year-old Ugandan human rights activist killed on her honeymoon when an unsecured metal gate arm at Arches National Park swung into her husband's vehicle, delivering the largest federal wrongful death verdict in Utah history.

An Albuquerque jury awarded $7.75 million to Michael Webb and his wife after Presbyterian Hospital ICU staff failed to reposition him for extended stretches, causing a devastating Stage 4 pressure ulcer that remained unhealed more than five years later.

A state district judge awarded $6 million to the family of Christopher Torres, a 27-year-old man with schizophrenia, after finding that two plainclothes APD detectives escalated a routine warrant service into a fatal encounter, then shot him three times in the back without justification.

A New Mexico judge awarded Michael Brian McDonald $2,027,424.91 after finding that Zimmer's dual-modular Kinectiv hip implant shed metal debris into his bloodstream, causing metallosis and forcing two revision surgeries.

New Mexico State University agreed to pay $1 million and require annual consent and sexual assault training for every enrolled student after a lawsuit alleged the university failed to investigate or protect a freshman who was raped in her dorm room in September 2022.

Jason Wachocki, 22, was killed in 2004 when a jail corrections officer drove through a stop sign on Shelly Road west of Albuquerque at more than 75 mph with his headlights off. After a bench trial, the district court held the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department 30 percent at fault for not enforcing traffic laws against its own and jail officers. The Department's $1.11 million share was limited to $400,000 by the Tort Claims Act cap, and the Court of Appeals affirmed in 2009.

A confidential settlement ended a wrongful-death trial against Allsup's Enterprises after a Santa Fe jury, deliberating on a $51 million award, was told the case had resolved.