Les Neuhaus
After a lengthy question and answer session, a Senate panel unanimously recommended to confirm Jeffrey Bragg as Florida’s Secretary of Elder Affairs Monday, an office that oversees a quarter of Florida’s 20 million residents.
The recommendation by the Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs will next go to the full chamber for a confirmation vote.
Last year Bragg was rejected as the state’s insurance commissioner. He was peppered with questions by the committee, but overall, the committee supported his appointment by Gov. Rick Scott.
From Palm Harbor in Pinellas County, the 67-year-old Bragg ran the nation’s terrorism risk insurance program from 2003 until 2014, when he retired.
He worked under the Reagan Administration in the 1980s, serving in the Federal Emergency Management Agency where he was the administrator for the national flood insurance program.
Between those appointments, Bragg worked in the private sector, including as a senior vice president for Zurich Risk Management from 2001 to 2003 and later for IMSG as its executive vice president in St. Petersburg from 1997 to 2000.
