This is an audio cast of the frontline program Business of Disaster

premiering May 24th on PBS and online at frontline.org

tonight more than three years after Superstorm Sandy frontline and NPR correspondent

Lorna Sullivan investigate insurance company said I know that was pre-existing the red tape and now I feel this same application now three times the same

I was the same as John this pile yes the controversies this is a classic dispute when they gave her just a little bit of money

I saw blanket denials across the board. There's no evidence of any systematic issues with respect to how the claims were

adjusted or how the claims were paid and the profits 400 million dollars in profit how do you explain that while we were providing oversight it was not enough

tonight a frontline NPR special report people are profiting unfairly on other people's misery business of disaster

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we looked around and tried to find the perfect spot between Brooklyn where I grew up and she grew up from Jersey so

snap now I was the medium obviously this is the place we want to live the loves fishing it's right off the water and it just fit into our life

there was a lot of joy and happiness that this ocean brought us Nick and Diane Camarata

the ocean could be joyful and the ocean could also swallow you up at any given time you know it's unpredictable

where and present these are sandy swirls along the east coast the time for evacuation is over when you're back behind the building

fishing stat malin for 20 years you pretty much know what the tides are the tide was the highest tide I have ever seen on stat malin

I ran up the whole entire block and I said this is the storm we have to leave we there's a good chance you're going to die

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