Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Alcohol-Poisoning Brain Injury Attorneys — Danny Santulli’s Catastrophic Hypoxic Brain Damage at the University of Missouri Fiji House in Columbia, a National Fraternity That Defied Its Own Alcohol Sanction to Stage Pledge Dad Reveal Night, Attorney911 Pursues the National Organization, the Chapter and Every Member Who Failed to Intervene, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Disciplinary Records Before the 30-Day Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Uncapped Non-Economic Damages for Conscious Disregard of a Pledge’s Safety, the Closed House Sits Empty and Witnesses Scatter While the Statute of Limitations Runs — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia, Missouri Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit: What Happened at Fiji — and What the Law Says About Your Rights The phone call that changes everything in a hazing case usually comes at night. A voice on the other end says your son is at the hospital. Or worse — that he has been medevaced to a trauma center hours away, and the words “brain injury” are in the first sentence. In Columbia, where the University of Missouri is the town and Greek life is woven into its social fabric, that call has come too many times. What happened at the Phi Gamma Delta house on October 20 was not an accident. It was a chain of decisions — each one made by someone who could have stopped it and didn’t. Here is the first thing you need to know: Missouri has a law against hazing. It is a criminal statute, and it exists because the legislature understood that the people inside a fraternity — the ones who planned the event, bought the alcohol, and watched a pledge drink until his brain was starved of oxygen — would not police themselves. That law is also the foundation of a civil case. When…

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Jul 22, 2026

Timothy Piazza, 19, Dead After a Gauntlet Drinking Ritual at the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Penn State — Pennsylvania Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the National Fraternity Organization, Its Local Chapter and the House Corporation Behind Forced-Alcohol Pledging That Left a Teen Unconscious on a Couch for Hours While Members Did Nothing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Fraternity Deaths, We Secure the Surveillance Footage, National Fraternity Risk-Management Files and Toxicology Reports Before They Are Overwritten or Sanitized, the State’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Act, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: Who Pays, What the Law Allows, and Why the Evidence Clock Starts the Day You Call If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your child came home from a fraternity event in an ambulance — or did not come home at all — you are in the worst moment a parent can be in. You are not reading this page casually. You are reading it because something happened at a fraternity house in Pennsylvania that should never have happened, and you need to know what the law actually allows you to do about it. We are going to tell you everything we know about how these cases are built, who is responsible, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what the other side is already doing to make sure you never get the full story. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Pennsylvania, and we are currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit. That case is in Texas, not Pennsylvania — but the architecture of a hazing wrongful death case is the same no matter where the fraternity…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University That Knew, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Fraternity Communications, University Hazing Records and Criminal Convictions Before Witnesses Graduate and Messages Vanish, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and Collin’s Law, Acute Alcohol Poisoning and Coercive Pledging Dynamics That Refute the Voluntary-Consumption Defense, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green Fraternity Hazing Death: How Ohio Law Holds Universities and Fraternities Accountable If you are reading this page, you may be sitting at a kitchen table in Bowling Green, or in Delaware, Ohio, or somewhere along the I-75 corridor between Toledo and home, trying to understand how a fraternity initiation event ended with your child hospitalized or gone. You may have just learned that a tradition of new members being expected to consume a full bottle of alcohol at a fraternity event — a tradition the university’s own investigation later documented — led to acute alcohol poisoning, three days on life support, and a death that did not have to happen. Here is the first thing you need to know, and it is the thing the fraternity and the university are counting on you not understanding: the evidence that proves what really happened inside that house is dying faster than the legal deadline to file a claim. Ohio gives you two years from the date of death to bring a wrongful death action. But the text messages between fraternity members, the group chats where the event was organized, the witness accounts from pledges who were there — students graduate,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha’s National Organization and the University’s Negligent Supervision of Greek-Life Hazing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Deaths, We Preserve Fraternity Communications, University Conduct Board Files, and Toxicology Evidence Before Witnesses Graduate and Records Are Purged, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act and Collin’s Law Anti-Hazing Framework, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night That Should Never Have Happened: Bowling Green’s Hazing Death and What It Means for Every Family If you are reading this page, you are probably in one of two places. Either you have lost someone to a hazing incident at a college or university in Ohio, and you are trying to understand whether what happened to your child was a tragedy or a crime — or both. Or you are a parent whose child survived a hazing event and you are only now learning how close you came to the phone call the Foltz family received in March of 2021. Either way, you are here because something broke, and you need to know whether the people who let it break can be held accountable. They can. We are going to tell you exactly how, and exactly what the law in Ohio gives your family the power to do about it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases in Ohio and across the country, and we currently lead active hazing litigation against a university and a national fraternity. We know what these cases look like…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio: A 20-Year-Old BGSU Pledge Forced to Drink a Liter of Bourbon at a Pi Kappa Alpha Ritual, Three Days in a Coma, Fatal Alcohol Poisoning — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Insurer Behind These Initiation Rituals, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Fraternity Communications, National Risk-Management Files and Criminal Conviction Records Before They Are Purged, Ohio’s Collin’s 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

When They Said “We’ll Take Care of Him” — The Night That Killed Your Son at Bowling Green Your child went to college to learn. He joined a fraternity to belong. He was told to drink a liter of bourbon, and he was told that the young men handing it to him would take care of him. Then they watched him lose consciousness, and they did nothing that mattered in time to save his life. He spent nearly three days in a coma on a ventilator while you stood at his bedside, and on March 7, 2021, he died from alcohol poisoning in a hospital in Ohio — killed by a ritual that has a name, that has a law against it, and that has been killing college students for generations. We need you to hear this first: your son’s death was not his fault. He was a 20-year-old sophomore who wanted what every 20-year-old wants — community, belonging, a place in the world. The system that killed him exploited that desire, and the law in Ohio now says exactly that. What happened to your child in Bowling Green was not an accident, not a prank gone wrong, not “kids…

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Jul 22, 2026

Parents of Roswell teen who died during alcohol-related incident at LSU excited about new anti-hazing legislation – 11Alive.com

Hazing Wrongful Death: Your Legal Rights When a Fraternity Takes a Student’s Life If you are reading this page, you may be living through something no parent should ever have to survive. Your child went to college — maybe just weeks or months ago — and a fraternity ritual turned a night that should have been about belonging into the last night of their life. The criminal case may be over. The news cameras may be gone. The legislation may carry your child’s name. And still, you are sitting at a kitchen table trying to understand what comes next. What comes next is this: the civil justice system. It is a separate, powerful avenue of accountability that does not replace criminal prosecution or legislative advocacy — it runs alongside them, and it reaches people and institutions that criminal courts never touch. The local fraternity chapter that organized the hazing. The national fraternity organization that was supposed to prevent it. The individual members who handed your child the alcohol and then walked away while he lay dying. The university that knew this culture existed and failed to stop it. Each of these is a separate defendant with a separate insurance policy…

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Jul 22, 2026

Penn State Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death: Timothy Piazza, 19, Died After Beta Theta Pi Fed Pledges Vodka to a BAC of 0.28-0.36 in University Park, Centre County, Pennsylvania, and He Fell Repeatedly Down Stairs While Fraternity Leadership Waited Until Morning to Call 911 — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University Behind Hazing Rituals That Turn a Pledge’s Quest for Belonging Into a Fatal Night, 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, We Move to Preserve the Surveillance Footage, Cell Phone Records and Fraternity Risk-Management Documents Before They Disappear, Pennsylvania’s Wrongful Death and Survival Acts Impose No Damages Cap and Punitive Damages Apply When Fraternity Leadership Shows Reckless Indifference to a Pledge’s Life, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Son Went to College to Find Community — Not to Die in a Fraternity Basement Nobody sends their child to a university expecting that the organization promising brotherhood would instead be the thing that kills him. The guilty pleas in the Penn State hazing case — fourteen counts of hazing and a single count of reckless endangerment against the fraternity’s president and pledge master — represent a measure of individual accountability. They are not the full measure of justice. The criminal system can send people to prison. It cannot send a check to replace a lifetime of earning power. It cannot order a national fraternity to change how it trains every chapter across the country. It cannot compensate a family for the empty chair at every future holiday table. That work belongs to the civil justice system — and if you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed by a fraternity’s hazing, that system is yours to use. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases in Pennsylvania, working with local counsel where required. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Final two criminal defendants in Timothy Piazza hazing case sentenced in Centre County Court – fox43.com

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: What the Piazza Sentencing Means for Civil Liability The criminal sentencing of the final two defendants in the Timothy Piazza hazing case closes one chapter. It opens another. If your family lost a son or daughter to a fraternity hazing event — whether at Penn State or anywhere else in this country — the criminal system did its job, and it was never going to do the whole job. Criminal court puts people in prison. Civil court makes the institutions that profited from the culture that killed your child pay for what they built. Those are two different fights, and the second one is the one that forces change. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you — and now sits on your side of…

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Jul 22, 2026

Timothy Piazza Fraternity Hazing Death at Penn State: Attorney911 Litigates Hazing Wrongful Death in Centre County, Pennsylvania — We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization Behind the Alcohol-Fueled Pledge Initiation and the Stairway Fall, the Local Chapter That Delayed 911 While a Survivable Head Injury Became Fatal, the University’s Greek-Life Oversight Failures and Sovereign-Immunity Defenses of a State-Related Institution, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage, Cell-Phone Records and Toxicology Reports Before They Are Lost and the Statute of Limitations Runs, Pennsylvania’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Statutes With No Caps on Damages, the Timothy Piazza Anti-Hazing 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

Centre County, Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Death: What the Beta Theta Pi Sentencing Exposes About Civil Liability When a Pledge Dies You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a fraternity event. Maybe it was a fall down stairs. Maybe it was alcohol apledge was pressured to drink until he could not stand. Maybe it was the hours that passed while people who could have called 911 did not. What happened at the Beta Theta Pi house at Penn State in 2017 — and what played out in a Centre County courtroom seven years later — is not an isolated tragedy. It is a pattern. And the law has more to say about it than the criminal sentencing captured in a headline. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, including fraternity and sorority hazing deaths, anywhere the harm occurred. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like the reader — and now sits…

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Jul 22, 2026

WSU Freshman Sam Martinez Died of Alcohol Poisoning at an Alpha Tau Omega Hazing Ritual in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington — Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the National Fraternity and the University That Knew of 70 Prior Interventions at the Chapter House and Did Nothing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $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 Student-Conduct Records, Police Call Logs and Fraternity Communications Before They Are Purged, Washington’s Wrongful-Death Act and Anti-Hazing Statute With No Caps on Non-Economic Damages, 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 70 Interventions They Knew About: Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Pullman If you are reading this page, you may be standing where Jolayne Houtz and Hector Martinez stood after losing their 19-year-old son Sam — a Washington State University freshman who died from alcohol poisoning at an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity hazing event in 2019. You may be a parent who searched for safety information about a fraternity and found nothing, the way Sam’s mother searched and found nothing. You may be learning, only after the worst has already happened, that the danger was documented — that authorities had intervened at that same chapter house nearly 70 times in the six years before your child died, and that the university and the national fraternity knew it at their highest leadership levels and did nothing effective to stop it. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes Washington wrongful-death and fraternity-hazing cases, working with local counsel and pro hac vice admission where required. We currently litigate a \$10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity — so the machinery of these cases, the defendant structures, the insurance towers, and the institutional excuses are not abstract…

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