Federal officials have fined Texas $3.96 million for errors in issuing food stamp benefits, according to a letter to House Speaker Joe Straus. The penalty is for a high rate of overpayments or underpayments two years in a row, said the letter from U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Kevin Concannon. Read the related article published…
One in five medical claims is processed inaccurately by commercial health insurers, often leaving physicians shortchanged, according to the nation’s largest doctor’s group. This article states that, “The AMA estimates that increasing the industry’s accuracy to 100% would save doctors and insurers up to $15.5 billion a year.” Read more about this example of how…
Evoke Development is pleased to announce that Accurate Data Transfer (now Accuracy in the Workplace) is featured in Training Magazine. If you are considering utilizing Accurate Data Transfer, you will be interested in reading the comments and the “on-the-job” performance improvement experienced from one of our many satisfied customers. The program’s author also provides some…
A typographical error in a jury’s verdict form convicting an Akron man of cocaine possession in 2005 has cut short the time he is serving in prison from 10 years to four years. Read the article in the Akron Beacon Journal.
New Zealand institution mistakenly deposited $6.1 million into account. Read more about the repercussions of this bank error.
Investigators are researching why the stock of the parent company of P&C Foods went almost to zero. According to a source in the article, the drop could be “a trade report error, which is a fairly common error.” Read more about the issues that developed following this suspected clerical error.
Error on tax bill causes approximately 70,000 property owners to be overcharged. This error involved three different departments and will require numerous pieces of communication with taxpayers to correct the fallout from this error ripple effect according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Twins given 1,000 times the dosage of blood thinner. Instead of receiving 10 units per milliliter, the victims were given 10,000 units per milliliter. Additional drugs were administered to counteract the overdose of blood thinner. Want to learn more?
A Japanese securities firm employee made an error when placing a sell order. Instead of selling 1 share at 610,000 yen, the numbers were reversed and 610,000 shares were sold for 1 yen causing mayhem in the Japanese market. Want to read more about the cost of this error?
The omission of a digit on a mail order site causes company to lose over $2 million in revenue. Fifteen hundred units had already been sold at the drastically reduced price (19,800 yen instead of 198,000) before the error was caught. Want to read more about the cost of this typo?
