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Think about this real life example:
My fiancée was involved in a low speed RTA when she was hit in the rear when she stopped at a zebra crossing. The driver admitted fault as clearly he should. No injuries were sustained at all. Not even a headache. Some minor damage to the rear of the vehicle.
The RAC arrived to check the car over as part of the bumper was connecting with the rear tyre. It was pushed back and my fiancée drove home. The vehicle was repaired by the third party insurers at their own cost and a hire car was supplied (through we believe association with RAC).
Over the course of the next 12 months (yes, a whole year), she was contacted almost daily by accident management companies, mainly the same one (Quindell of all companies) asking her to bring a claim for personal injuries, even though she repeatedly told them that she wasn't injured. She was even told by this same AMC that she had to bring a claim as the other driver had done so and had been paid out! That was either completely untrue (as the accident had been his fault) or they were mistaking the fact that perhaps he had claimed on his own policy for his own damage and they thought that they meant he had made a claim!
It was disgraceful behavior - more vulnerable folks may have been pressurized into bringing a false claim for injuries and I'm pretty sure this sort of practice is still happening. The accident details must have been shared/sold by either the recovery company or insurers.