Examining the growing costs and risks of underground insurance

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Supreme Court finds for the engineers – TunnelTalk, December 2008
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SR99 tunnel budget stretched to the limit – TunnelTalk, April 2015
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Hartmut Reiner, Business Developer and Senior Underwriter for insurance giant Munich Re, speaks to TunnelTalk Editor Shani Wallis at Bauma Munich 2016 about the growing risk profiles of ever-larger and ever-more complex underground projects. As tunnel diameters become larger, as the technology advances, and as contractors come under pressure to meet tighter and tighter schedules, the insurance industry forsees a time when insurance cover will become increasingly difficult to arrange.