Island of Hope

When Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in late September, Jim and Liana O'Drobinak could have fled the island and escaped the storm's effects.

The couple maintain a residence in Tampa, despite moving to San Juan six years ago so Jim could take a job as CEO of Medical Card System Inc., one of the territory's leading health insurance companies. A graduate of the University of South Florida, Jim O'Drobinak had been a senior manager of Deloitte & Touche's Tampa office and COO of St. Petersburg-based Universal Health Care, among other executive positions, before MCS.

But instead of catching a flight to Florida, the couple remained in Puerto Rico.