Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Savanna Jones, a Wilberforce University Freshman in Greene County, Ohio, Died From Forced Liquor Consumption in a Crossing Turtles Initiation Ritual and Was Left Unattended for Hours Without Medical Aid — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, We Pursue the University, Its Housing Director, the Hazing Participants and Every Bystander Who Failed to Call 911, We Preserve the Dormitory Surveillance Footage, Student Cell-Phone Records and Toxicology Findings Before They Are Overwritten or Deleted, Ohio Anti-Hazing Act Civil Liability and Wrongful-Death Doctrine With Uncapped Non-Economic Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hazing Ritual Kills a Freshman: What Ohio Law Gives the Family If you are reading this because someone you love did not come home from college — because a “tradition” that was supposed to welcome them into a group turned into something that killed them — you are in the worst moment of your life, and you are also in a moment where the clock is already running against you. We are going to tell you exactly what the law gives you, what the university and its lawyers are already doing, and what evidence is disappearing while you grieve. None of this is fair. All of it is real. And the single most important thing we can tell you up front is this: your daughter’s death was not her fault. The coercive dynamics of hazing exploit a first-year student’s vulnerability and desperate desire to belong. Ohio law recognizes that power imbalance. So do we. A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in Greene County, Ohio, alleging that a Wilberforce University freshman died after participating in an alcohol-fueled initiation ritual tied to an unofficial student group known as “the turtles.” The complaint alleges she was required to consume an…

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Jul 22, 2026

Sorority Hazing Wrongful Death in Wilberforce, Ohio: 18-Year-Old Savanna Jones Forced to Drink an Entire Liquor Bottle, Left Unconscious as Sorority Members Carried Her Body Across Campus Instead of Calling 911 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue Wilberforce University and the Turtles Sorority Under Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Law and the State’s Wrongful-Death Act With No Damages Cap, the Firm Currently Leads a $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Campus Surveillance Footage, the Circulated Photograph, the Group Chats and the Toxicology Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Wilberforce, Ohio Hazing Death: A Sorority Forced an 18-Year-Old to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor — Then Carried Her Body Across Campus Instead of Calling 911 If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it is your daughter. Maybe your sister, your granddaughter, your friend. She went to Wilberforce University as a freshman — she was 18 years old, she was pledging a sorority, and she is never coming home. The people who were supposed to be her sisters forced her to drink an entire bottle of liquor as the price of belonging. When she collapsed, they did not call 911. They did not hold her hand. They did not try to save her. They photographed her lying unconscious on a bed, and then they carried her body across campus to her own dorm and left her there for someone else to find. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful-death cases in Ohio, working with local counsel where required. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing wrongful-death lawsuit against a university and a…

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Jul 22, 2026

Toledo Hazing Lawsuit & Wrongful Death Attorneys: When a Scholarship Celebration Turns to Tragedy, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Statute and Collin’s Law, We Pursue the University, the Local Chapter and the National Fraternity Behind Pledge-Period Hazing, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Carriers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Disciplinary Records, Collin’s Law Compliance Filings and Surveillance Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Consent Is Not a Defense to Hazing Under Ohio Law, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Scholarship Celebration Becomes a Hazing Tragedy: Your Family’s Rights Under Ohio Law Your child earned a scholarship. That is not a small thing — it means a room full of people celebrated what your child had built, the years of work, the grades, the potential. And then, in the span of days or weeks, that celebration turned into the worst phone call a parent can receive. A hazing incident. A freshman. A family that was planning a future now planning something else entirely. We are not going to pretend we know exactly what happened to your child, because the specific details of this case have not been made public in full. What we know is this: a Toledo college freshman’s family has filed a hazing lawsuit after an incident that turned a scholarship celebration into tragedy. And what we know from years of doing this work is that what happened to your child is not an accident, not a rite of passage, and not something the law treats as a misunderstanding. It is a civil wrong — and in Ohio, it may also be a crime. We are Attorney911, and we handle hazing cases. Right now, our managing…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio: Attorney911 Fights for Families of Students Killed in Alcohol-Based Initiation Rituals — Savanna Jones, 18, Dead After the Turtles’ Crossing Required a Full Bottle of Liquor in a Henderson Hall Dorm Room While Resident Assistants Watched, We Pursue the University That Marketed Itself as Dry While Its Staff Failed to Intervene, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Hazing Deaths, We Preserve the Dorm Footage, Her Text Messages Warning Friends She Was Scared and the Circulated Photo of an Unconscious Freshman Before They Disappear, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy Under Collin’s Law and the State’s Wrongful-Death Act With No Statutory Damages Cap, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Wilberforce University Hazing Death: Ohio Law, Institutional Liability, and What Families Need to Know An 18-year-old freshman should be preparing for her sophomore year. She should be texting her bandmates about fall rehearsal, moving into a dorm room, calling home about classes she picked. Instead her family is standing over a grave, holding a death certificate, and reading the word “hazing” in a lawsuit filed against the university that promised to keep her safe. That gap — between what a family was promised and what happened inside a residence hall at Wilberforce University in Greene County, Ohio — is where this case lives. We are Attorney911, and we handle hazing wrongful death cases. What follows is the deepest legal and factual analysis we can give you of what happened, what Ohio law allows, what the evidence shows, and what a family can do — because every day that passes, the proof is disappearing. What Happened at Wilberforce University: The Turtles, the Crossing Ritual, and the Hours That Followed An 18-year-old freshman at Wilberforce University, a member of the Hounds of Sound marching band, died on April 30, 2026, after an alcohol-based hazing ritual tied to an unofficial student group known…

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Jul 22, 2026

Ursuline Hazing Lawsuit Nears Settlement — Hazing-National School Hazing & Title IX Attorneys at Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Cases Against Private Schools and Dioceses That Permit Football-Team Hazing on Summer Field Trips and Deliberate Indifference to Student-on-Student Harassment, We Move to Preserve Cafeteria Surveillance Footage and Staff Emails Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Erases the Evidence, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) for Concussion Victims of Planned Fights Schools Failed to Prevent, Ohio’s Collin’s Law Civil Remedies and Title IX’s Deliberate-Indifference Standard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $50M+ Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Ursuline Hazing Settlement: What It Means for Families in Youngstown and Across Ohio The settlement news coming out of Youngstown may be the first signal that what happened to your child at school was not “tradition” or “boys being boys” — it was a civil wrong that Ohio wrote a law to stop. If your son came home from a football trip with injuries no adult would explain, if your daughter was harassed until she stopped wanting to walk through the school doors, if a fight everyone knew was coming happened anyway and your child ended up with a concussion — the law does not call those things normal. It calls them hazing, discrimination, and negligence. And the fact that a Catholic diocese and a private high school are sitting at the settlement table in federal court right now tells you exactly how seriously the system takes it when the adults who were supposed to supervise looked the other way. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle hazing, school-liability, and catastrophic student-injury cases, and we are writing this for one reason: so that a parent reading at 2 a.m. understands what their child’s rights actually are…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha and the National Fraternity Oversight Structure Behind the Local Chapter, the University That Knew of Hazing Traditions and Failed to Enforce Its Own Anti-Hazing Policy, Alcohol Poisoning From a Coercive Bottle-Finish Pledge Ritual That Left a 20-Year-Old on Life Support for Three Days, We Pull the Fraternity Group Chats, University Enforcement Records and Toxicology Findings Before Witnesses Graduate and Messages Vanish, Eight Criminal Convictions That Lock In Civil Liability, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act and Anti-Hazing Law With the Comparative-Fault Defense Reframed Through the Coercive Power Imbalance of Pledging, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Deaths, the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Hazing Death: How a Fraternity Tradition Killed a 20-Year-Old — and How the Law Holds Every Layer Accountable If you are reading this page, someone you love has been hurt or killed by a fraternity tradition that was never an accident. Maybe your son is in an ICU right now. Maybe you are planning a funeral for a child who went to college to learn and died trying to join a club. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a letter from a university lawyer who says the school “actively enforced” its anti-hazing policy and that the lawsuit is “meritless.” That word — “meritless” — is a litigation posture, not a moral judgment. The fact that a settlement followed tells you what the institution really knew. What happened at Bowling Green State University in March 2021 is not a mystery. A 20-year-old student from Delaware, Ohio, attended a fraternity initiation event where the tradition was for new members to finish — or attempt to finish — a bottle of alcohol. He was found unconscious after members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity dropped him off at his apartment. He died three days…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death: After Max Gruver, an 18-Year-Old LSU Freshman, Died of Acute Alcohol Toxicity in a Phi Delta Theta Hazing Ritual in Baton Rouge, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapter and the University, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Fraternity House Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle, the Pledge-Class Group Chats and the Coroner’s Toxicology Report, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Felony Statute Strengthens the Civil Claim Under the State’s Civil-Code Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Fraternity Pledge Dies: What Happened at LSU and What It Means for Every Family If you are reading this page, you may be a parent who sent a child to college and got a phone call no parent should ever receive. You may be a sibling, a friend, or a family member trying to understand what happened — and what can be done about it. You may be reading about the verdict in Baton Rouge and wondering whether what happened to your family, or a family you know, can be pursued the same way. We are going to tell you everything we know about how a hazing death becomes a wrongful death case in Louisiana — the law, the defendants, the evidence, the money, the medicine, and the playbook the other side will run against you. This is the page we wish every family could find at 2 a.m. when the shock is still fresh and the questions have no answers yet. Here is what we know happened: In September 2017, an 18-year-old Louisiana State University freshman died after an alcohol-related hazing ritual while pledging a fraternity on or near the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. His parents…

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Jul 22, 2026

Timothy Piazza Hazing Death & Fraternity Wrongful Death in Centre County, PA: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organizations, Local Chapters and Universities Behind Alcohol-Fueled Pledge Rituals and Delayed Medical Response That Killed a 19-Year-Old Sophomore, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Fraternity-House Surveillance Footage, Pledge Communications and Toxicology Reports Before They Are Lost, Pennsylvania’s Timothy Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Criminal Sentencing Is Over. The Civil Case Has Not Begun. The sentencing is done. Two young men who led the fraternity the night your child died will serve a few months — and then go home. You sat in that courtroom in Bellefonte and heard the judge’s numbers, and something in you broke differently than it broke at the funeral. Because the sentence told you something about what the criminal system thinks this life was worth. And it was not enough. It was never going to be enough. What happened inside that fraternity house in Centre County was not an accident. It was a system. The alcohol was not random — it was the ritual. The falls were not bad luck — they were the foreseeable result of a ritual designed to push a pledge past the point of self-preservation. And the silence that followed — the hours when no one called 911 — was not confusion. It was a decision. The criminal case prosecuted individuals. The civil case goes after the system that put them there and kept them there — the local chapter that ran the event, the national fraternity organization that owed a duty to police…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Critical on Life Support After Alleged Pi Kappa Alpha Alcohol Hazing at a BGSU Off-Campus Event in Bowling Green, Ohio — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Individual Members Behind Coerced Alcohol Consumption During Pledging, We Move to Preserve Group Chats, Snapchat Messages and Witness Statements Before They Auto-Delete Within 24 Hours, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy and Social Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to Persons Under 21, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Hazing: What Happened at BGSU and What Ohio Law Lets a Family Do About It Your son is on life support. The national fraternity put out a statement saying he was dead before he was dead — and then had to retract it. You are standing in a hospital hallway in Bowling Green while reporters call your phone and fraternity members you have never met are already deleting their group chats. You do not know what happened inside that off-campus house on March 4. You do know your son went in alive and came out on a ventilator. Everything else is what they are telling you — and what they are erasing. We are going to tell you what Ohio law actually gives a family in this moment, what evidence is being destroyed while you read this, and what the people responsible are already doing to protect themselves. None of it is theoretical. We currently litigate a hazing case — Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi, a $10 million lawsuit against a University of Houston fraternity — and the machinery of a hazing case is the same whether the chapter is in Harris County, Texas, or Wood…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Bleach-Burn Esophageal Injury Attorneys in Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi: Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity and the Chapter Behind Hell Week Initiation Rituals That Sprayed Caustic Bleach Into a Pledge’s Mouth and Eyes, Leaving Grade 4 Erosive Esophagitis With Chemical Burns Across the Entire Esophagus, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Fraternity Liability, We Move to Preserve the Social-Media Footage, Cyberstalking Messages and Chapter Probation Records Before They Are Deleted or Relocated, Mississippi’s Pure Comparative-Negligence Rule the Fraternity Already Invoked to Blame the Pledge and the Punitive-Damages Standard for Gross Negligence, the Statute of Limitations Is Running, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Oxford, Mississippi Fraternity Hazing: What Happened at Ole Miss and What It Means for Your Family If your son came home from a fraternity event with chemical burns in his throat — or if you are reading this because a young man you love was blindfolded, lined against a wall, and had bleach sprayed into his mouth during a ritual someone called “tradition” — you are in the right place. What happened to that student at the Pi Kappa Alpha house on the night of October 11, 2020 was not an accident, not a prank, and not something he brought on himself. It was a crime. Mississippi law says so. And the law gives your family a door to hold every person and every institution that let it happen accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle fraternity and sorority hazing injury cases, and we currently litigate a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity — a case that shares the same architecture as what happened at Ole Miss: a national fraternity, a local chapter, young men entrusted with power over pledges, and a catastrophic injury that did not have to happen. We are writing…

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