DICKINSON v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY ERIC DICKINSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY et al. , Defendants and Respondents. Ballard Spahr, Naomi Young, Lawrence J. Gartner and John R. Carrigan, Jr. , for Defendant and Appellant Allstate Insurance Company and Defendants and Respondents Allstate Insurance Company and Eric Jentgen. Dickinson was "grandfathered" into the Allstate workforce when Allstate bought the auto insurance lines of CNA Insurance. *fn15 At a posttrial hearing, Allstate asked to have the judgment entered only against Allstate on the ground that Allstate, not Jentgen personally, was responsible for firing Dickinson, and so only Allstate, not Jentgen personally, could be responsible for self-publication regarding the reason Dickinson was fired. Dickinson appealed this ruling, arguing that Jentgen should be personally liable, along with Allstate, for the $2,000 in damages Dickinson obtained on the self-publication claim.

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