Finance

Identifying a critical statistical bias in the way the Department of Health & Human Services unfairly penalizes states for errors in determining Medicaid eligibility and payments.

A federal agency alleged that a state Blue Cross Blue Shield organization had benefited improperly from their dual role as administrator of federal Medicaid insurance and private health insurance provider.

Estimating national and state sales for a class of products required models using biased data.

A state ran afoul of a federal audit when, for several months, the customary sample of social workers' time use was not collected due to a transition in the state department.

General Dynamics owns a shipyard, nearly three-quarters of which is located in Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1976 Quincy's Board of Assessors increased the property's assessment by approximately two-thirds.

A shareholder's suit against a major service firm went to mediation. A key factual issue concerned the regression analysis applied to characterize a break in the statistical "time series" of the firm's stock prices.