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Any made up claim be it from a made up accident or made up injury is fraud. Any of them, so differentiating between staged accidents and pretend injuries is wrong.

But why the concern about self reporting? Many many injured people just get on with stuff rather than attend A&E or their GP. Most will just take it a little bit easier and take painkillers. Many won't even take painkillers. That doesn't mean they haven't been injured. Just like the pulled hamstring I suffered this morning. It'll still be there in several weeks but it won't appear on my records.

Maybe it's because my firm has never bought work in, but suspicious claims are very few (I cannot remember the last one). On occasion the losses are exaggerated (usually by the middle class clients) but not for long once I look at it

There are many like me or my firm out there and we do not see the problems albeit we are aware of them. The problems appear to stem from the CMC fed firms or the firms that own CMCs and that is where the axe should fall.

Like the one in this report. 22m calls is madness regardless of whether people opted in or had no idea they were doing so. It takes time to check how one opts out and so easy to make a mistake online and tick a box when you should be unticking it and vice versa.

Oh and at a previous firm I dealt with one very dodgy CMC which referred many genuine cases but too many smelly ones so was sacked, and one excellent CMC that weeded out dodgy cases from the off. There are good ones out there but not enough to justify keeping them.