Santa Fe, NM — Last week, the New Mexico State Ethics Commission filed a suit claiming that the New Mexico Safety Over Profit organization violated state law by failing to disclose funding sources as well as expenditures in their lobbying efforts to stop legislation necessary to protect doctors and hospitals from frivolous lawsuits. The commission's legal action comes in response to the 2025 Legislative Session, during which Democrats killed multiple bills seeking to limit attorney's fees from lawsuits targeting doctors and other healthcare providers.
In response to the lawsuit, Senate Republican Leader Bill Sharer (R-Farmington) has issued the following statement:
"New Mexico, when you can't get in to see a healthcare specialist or are faced with longer and longer wait times to visit your family doctor, you'll know who to blame: radical progressive trial attorneys in the State Senate and the deep-pocketed Democrat shadow organizations who defend them." Sharer went on to explain, "As Republicans, we have been fighting to support our state's vital healthcare providers, who are fleeing New Mexico due to sky-high insurance rates resulting from the actions of these profit-driven trial lawyers. The legal action brought by the Ethics Commission sheds light on just how powerful a machine we are up against. Progressive Democrats in Santa Fe will stop at nothing to protect their trial attorney friends instead of everyday New Mexicans hoping to access the quality healthcare they need and deserve."
