They Survived the Hurricane. Their Insurance Company Didn't.

They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn't.

Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?

They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t.

Jennifer and Dean Bye were just getting by before Hurricane Ida slammed into southern Louisiana in 2021. The couple own a house in a comfortable subdivision in Paulina, a town about an hour west of New Orleans, that they share with their three kids. They had their challenges before the storm - Jennifer had recently been diagnosed with uterine cancer around the same time that one of their children was diagnosed with nonverbal autism - but the Bye…