I thought the general level of workers comp fraud was well understood, and it doesn't take much googling to find it. It sounds like the point of controversy is

I thought the general level of workers comp fraud was well understood, and it doesn't take much googling to find it. It sounds like the point of controversy is not sourcing, but the 1-2% figure. That 1-2% figure is the level of fraud given the current amount of privacy invasion and harassment, including the story as posted. Less harassment, more fraud; more harassment, less fraud. "full stop" If you think 1-2% is insignificant, I don't know what to say. By comparison, 0.037% of card-present transactions were fraudulent in 2012. That number was alarming enough it inspired switching all of our (USA) infrastructure to a chip-based system, and even that is generally not thought adequate. 1-2% is a large amount of fraud. If you have that amount of fraud on your merchant account, banks will generally shut you down.