The attorneys for Allstate insurance stopped responding when the emails started to get weird.

First, it was just vulgarity: "Pay up f---face," attorney Christopher G. Hook wrote in November, demanding Allstate pay a nine-figure settlement to his clients.

Then, it got worse: "You are going to get [expletive] tattooed across the face."

And worse: "Tell Allstate I am going to water board each one of their trolls that show up for [depositions] without any mercy whatsoever."

And — this could be "hard to imagine," attorneys for Allstate say — but the emails got even worse: "I know where you live Pete," Hook wrote to one lawyer.