Garamendi Traveling State to Promote WC Reform

California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has been traveling the state, making appearances at local chambers of commerce and area businesses in a promotional push for his workers' compensation reform ideas.Last Thursday, Garamendi could have been found Lodi's General Mills plant, and on Friday he was in Ventura in a "town hall meeting" sponsored by the Ventura County Chamber of Commerce.The Garamendi plan was published early this month, and includes controversial measures such as tying physician payments to the Medicare system and restraining State Compensation Insurance Fund.In Lodi, a...