Peter Glasson, the Southern Response (SR) earthquake claimant who started a hunger strike at midnight on Monday 16 April is increasingly disappointed by the lack of progress with he and his wife’s insurance claim.

Mr Glasson says SR is trying to force the couple to allow new Southern Response engineers access to their damaged home when the Court has clearly allowed only for a visit from three people, to carry out an engineering inspection of a very specific part of the home’s foundation and drainage.

“Mr Glasson says that Southern Response is still insisting on widening the scope of the Court imposed inspection to include a full engineering review of the entire house by a third and new engineer – something that is way beyond what the Court had allowed”.

“We have acted entirely in “good faith” for the last 7 plus years and still Southern Response and their lawyers continue to play and delay us,” he says. “It is quite outrageous and we are very disappointed by this. What on earth can they still not have, information-wise, after 16 assessments of our home over the last 7 plus years; it’s mind boggling but sadly not surprising as this is indicative of what we (and others) have had to endure over that time from SR,” he says.

Mr Glasson says that he will continue the hunger strike for as long as it takes to get an agreed way forward with Southern Response.

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