This article [Chapter 59A, Article 26 NMSA 1978] applies as to certain contracts of casualty insurance, as identified in the respective sections of this article, other than mortgage guaranty insurance contracts, motor vehicle insurance contracts and employer's liability or workmen's compensation insurance contracts, which such excepted contracts are respectively covered under a separate subsequent article of the Insurance Code. All such casualty contracts shall also be subject to applicable provisions of Article 18 [Chapter 59A, Article 18 NMSA 1978] (the insurance contract) of the Insurance Code.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 486.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For mortgage guaranty insurance contracts, see Chapter 59A, Article 28 NMSA 1978.
For motor vehicle insurance contracts, see Chapter 59A, Article 32 NMSA 1978.
For workers' compensation insurance contracts, see Chapter 59A, Article 33 NMSA 1978.
For the Insurance Code, see 59A-1-1 NMSA 1978 and notes thereto.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Liability insurance: intoxication or other mental incapacity avoiding application of clause in liability policy specifically exempting coverage of injury or damage caused intentionally by or at direction of insured, 33 A.L.R.4th 983.
Acts in self-defense as within provision of liability insurance policy expressly excluding coverage for damage or injury intended or expected by insured, 34 A.L.R.4th 761.
Duty of mortgagee of real property with respect to obtaining or maintenance of fire or other casualty insurance protecting mortgagor, 42 A.L.R.4th 188.
Self-insurance against liability as other insurance within meaning of liability insurance policy, 46 A.L.R.4th 707.
Livestock or animal insurance: risks and losses, 47 A.L.R.4th 772.
Liability insurance: when is vehicle in "dead storage," 48 A.L.R.4th 591.
Aviation insurance: causal link between breach of policy provisions and accident as requisite to avoid insurer's liability, 48 A.L.R.4th 778.
What constitutes single accident or occurrence within liability policy limiting insurer's liability to a specified amount per accident or occurrence, 64 A.L.R.4th 668.
Theft and vandalism insurance: coinsured's misconduct as barring innocent coinsured's right to recover on policy, 64 A.L.R.4th 714.
Construction and effect of "rain insurance" policies insuring against rainfall on the date of concert, exhibition, game, or the like, 70 A.L.R.4th 1010.
Liability of tortfeasor's insurance agent or broker to injured party for failure to procure or maintain liability insurance, 72 A.L.R.4th 1095.
Loss of information stored in computer system or on computer disk cartridge, computer tape, or similar computer storage media as within coverage of liability policy, 85 A.L.R.4th 1102.
Fire insurance: failure to disclose prior fires affecting insured's property as ground for avoidance of policy, 4 A.L.R.5th 117.
Liability of insurance agent or broker on ground of inadequacy of liability-insurance coverage procured, 60 A.L.R.5th 165.