California’s insurance commissioner has joined Holocaust survivors in demanding the resignation of the commission’s chairman. John Garamendi, who also is a member of an international commission on Nazi-era insurance claims, spoke out immediately after three survivors filed a lawsuit last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims and its chairman, former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.
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