Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Catastrophic Brain Injury Attorneys: Danny Santulli Was Forced to Drink Until Hypoxic Brain Injury Left Him Blind, Unable to Walk or Speak After Phi Gamma Delta’s Pledge Father Reveal Night in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization, the Local Chapter and the House Corporation Behind Forced Intoxication and the Decision to Withhold 911 Rather Than Risk Repercussions, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Liability Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Preserve the BAC and Toxicology Records, Neuroimaging, Surveillance Footage and Member Group Chats Before They Are Lost, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total Recovered for Injury Victims, Missouri’s Comparative-Fault Rule and Anti-Hazing Statute Govern Your Civil Claim, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia Fraternity Hazing Injuries: Legal Rights After Catastrophic Harm If you are reading this page, your family has already lived through the worst night of your lives. A child left for the University of Missouri, joined a fraternity, and came home with a catastrophic brain injury — or did not come home at all. The phone call from Columbia came at an hour no parent should have to answer. The doctors used words like “hypoxic” and “permanent.” The fraternity has already called its insurance company. The university has already issued a statement. And you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand how a young person who left for Mizzou six weeks ago came back unable to see, walk, or speak. We are Attorney911. We handle fraternity and sorority hazing cases, and we are currently litigating a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity at a major university. We know what these cases look like from the inside — the evidence that is already disappearing, the insurance tower that sits behind the local chapter, the playbook the defense runs to minimize what happened. This page is the education we wish every family had before the…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: Caleb Wilson, a 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior and Human Jukebox Trumpet Player, Died of Commotio Cordis From Repeated Chest Blows at a Baton Rouge Warehouse Pledging Ritual, and the Delayed 911 Call and False Information to Hospital Staff May Have Cost Him His Only Chance of Survival — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the University, and Every Individual Behind the Ritual, We Move to Preserve Warehouse Surveillance, Pledge Communications and Hospital Intake Records Before the Evidence Window Closes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act Makes Consent No Defense to Hazing Harm, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What the Law Says About the Southern University Omega Psi Phi Wrongful Death Lawsuit If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, you need to hear three things before anything else. First: what happened was not an accident. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner ruled this death a homicide — a medical and legal determination that a human act, not misfortune, stopped a 20-year-old’s heart. Second: Louisiana law strips away the oldest excuse in the hazing playbook. Under the Max Gruver Act, the fact that a pledge chose to be there is not a defense — consent does not shield the people who struck him, the organization that sanctioned the ritual, or the university that failed to stop it. Third: the minutes that passed between his collapse and the moment anyone called for real medical help may have been the difference between a funeral and a recovery, and that delay is its own separate claim. We are writing this as the senior trial team at Attorney911 — a firm that currently litigates a ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a fraternity at a major university,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of Southern University Student Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge: Commotio Cordis from Repeated Chest Punching at an Off-Campus Warehouse, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and the University Behind a Known and Pervasive Hazing Risk, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Warehouse Footage, Fraternity Oversight Records and University Hazing Complaint Files Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is Already Running, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What the Autopsy Means and What Your Family Can Do The coroner’s report came back on a Monday. Seven months after a young man from Kenner stopped breathing at an off-campus warehouse in Baton Rouge, the East Baton Rouge Coroner put two words on paper that change everything: homicide and commotio cordis. Those words are not a medical curiosity. They are the foundation of a wrongful death case, and they eliminate every defense the other side was building while your family was burying your son. If you are reading this because someone you love was killed in a fraternity hazing ritual, or because you are a parent watching a child pledge and you are terrified, we are writing this for you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take hazing wrongful death cases. We are currently litigating a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a fraternity in Harris County, Texas. We know this fight because we are in it right now. And we know what the coroner’s words mean for a family in Baton Rouge who just received the single most important piece of evidence they will ever hold. Wilson’s manner of…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Austin, Travis County, Texas: Sawyer Lee Updike, 18, a UT Austin freshman who died by suicide after months of alleged hazing at Sigma Chi’s Alpha Nu chapter — Attorney911 brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ years of federal-court trial practice, Avvo-rated Excellent, and lead-counsel authority in the active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi hazing lawsuit, we pursue the national fraternity, the local chapter and the individual members behind forced cocaine and psilocybin, fishhook spearing, staple-gun piercing, cigarette burns, physical whipping and sleep deprivation, Lupe Peña the former insurance-defense insider who knows how the claims machine values and denies these cases, we move to preserve the hazing recordings, fraternity house surveillance and toxicology findings before phones are wiped and DVR systems overwrite, Texas anti-hazing law makes consent no defense and gross negligence opens exemplary damages under the 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

Austin Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: What the Sigma Chi Lawsuit Means for Texas Families You are reading this at a time no family should ever have to face. Maybe your son is gone. Maybe he is still alive but you just learned what was done to him behind the doors of a fraternity house on West Campus, and you are sitting at your kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand how something this cruel could happen to an eighteen-year-old who just wanted to belong. Maybe you are a parent who sensed something was wrong months ago and could not get anyone to listen. Whatever brought you here, we want you to know one thing before anything else: what happened is not your son’s fault, and it is not your fault. The law in Texas recognizes that. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who take wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, including fraternity hazing cases. Our Austin office sits at 316 West 12th Street, minutes from the Travis County courthouse where a case like this would be filed. We have an active hazing lawsuit right now — a $10 million case…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson Fraternity Hazing Death in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana — Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in an Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Omega Psi Phi and Its Chartered Beta Sigma Chapter Behind the Pledge Ritual Where Repeated Chest Blows Collapsed a 20-Year-Old Southern University Marching-Band Member, the Cover-Up That Changed His Clothes and Delayed Emergency Care, Amplifying Survival Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Phone Downloads, Surveillance Footage and Fraternity Risk-Management Records Before They Vanish, Louisiana’s Felony Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Act with the Prescriptive Clock Running, 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’s Ritual Becomes a Death Sentence: What the Baton Rouge Indictments Mean for Families Your phone rang at an hour when no one calls with good news. A voice told you your child collapsed at a fraternity event. By the time you reached the hospital, he was gone. And the story you were first told about how it happened did not match the story the police would later tell. That gap — between what they said happened and what actually happened — is where the cover-up begins, and it is where a wrongful death case is built. We are writing this for you. Not for the curious. Not for the search engine. For the parent, the sibling, the guardian who is sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a folder of bills that just became unpayable, a phone full of condolences that do not answer a single real question, and a grief that has not yet found its shape because the facts are still moving. You are in Baton Rouge, or you are in a town like it, and a fraternity took someone you raised, someone you loved, and turned a pledge process into something that…

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Jul 22, 2026

ASU SAE Hazing Lawsuit in Tempe: Waterboarding, 10.5 Liters of Forced Vodka & a Pledge Left Motionless — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity and the Local Chapter Behind Negligent Supervision That Ignored Its Own Four-Day Pledging Standard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve GLV Security Footage, Group Chats and Medical Records Before They Disappear, Arizona’s Jack’s Law Criminalizes Hazing and Opens Civil Remedies, Arizona’s Constitution Prohibits Damage Caps and Punitive Damages Are Available for Aggravated Misconduct, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened to You Was Not Your Fault — and Arizona Law Says So If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because you or someone you love was a pledge at Arizona State University’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, you already know what happened. You do not need us to describe it back to you. You lived it. What you may not know is that the State of Arizona wrote a law specifically to tell you that what happened was a crime — not a tradition, not a rite of passage, not something you agreed to. A crime. And that law bears the name of a young man who did not survive his own encounter with this same fraternity at this same university. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Arizona cases, working with local counsel where required, and we are currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity in Texas. We know this fight because we are in it right now, in a different courtroom, against a different fraternity, for a different family. The machinery of accountability is the same. The playbook the defense…

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Jul 22, 2026

Wilberforce University Hazing Death of Savanna Jones: Forced to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor in a Henderson Hall Dorm Room While Resident Assistants Watched and Did Nothing — Attorney911 Holds the University and Its Housing Officials Accountable Under Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Law, We Preserve the Dorm Surveillance Footage, the Circulated Photo of an Unconscious 18-Year-Old, and Every Participant’s Text Messages Before They Are Deleted, 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 Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ohio’s Comparative-Fault Rule Does Not Shield Those Who Watched a Dying Student and Failed to Call 911 — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at Wilberforce University: A Freshman’s Death and the Law That Was Built to Answer It If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. An 18-year-old who should be finishing her first year of college is not coming home. And the reason she is not coming home is not an accident, not a random tragedy, and not something nobody could have foreseen. It was a ritual. It was organized. It happened inside a university dormitory. And people who were paid to keep students safe watched it happen and did nothing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Ohio hazing and wrongful-death cases, and we are writing this page for one person: the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table in the middle of the night, reading everything they can find, trying to understand what happened at Wilberforce University and what they can do about it. If that is you, here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened to your family was not her fault. She was 18 years old. She texted a friend that she was scared before the ritual began. The law…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Alcohol-Poisoning Brain Injury Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, Where Danny Santulli Was Left Unable to Walk, Talk or See After a Phi Gamma Delta Pledge Father Reveal — We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization and the Local Chapter in Hazing Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Claims, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Records Before Footage Overwrites and Witnesses Graduate, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute, Social Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to Minors and Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard, the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit and $5M+ TBI Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia Fraternity Hazing: Your Child’s Brain Injury Was Not Their Fault — and Missouri Law Gives You Tools You are reading this at an hour when no parent should be awake. Your son or daughter went to college — to the University of Missouri, to Columbia, to a place that was supposed to be the beginning of everything — and came back broken. Or did not come back at all. A fraternity “pledge father reveal” party. Alcohol forced on a freshman who wanted nothing more than to belong. A body that stopped breathing. A brain that stopped getting oxygen. And now a child who cannot walk, cannot talk, cannot see — who lives with you again, in a room that was supposed to be empty, because the people who were supposed to be his brothers let him die on the inside while his heart kept beating. We are not going to tell you it will be okay. We are going to tell you what the law can do about it. Missouri has an anti-hazing statute that makes what happened to your child a crime — and when the conduct creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury or death, that…

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Jul 22, 2026

Max Gruver Hazing Death at LSU: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Chapter Leadership After Phi Delta Theta’s Own Published Admission It Wasn’t Doing Enough to Fight Hazing, the Acute Alcohol Toxicity That Killed an 18-Year-Old Freshman, We Move to Preserve Fraternity House Surveillance, Member Group Messages and National Compliance Records Before the Overwrite and Louisiana’s Short Prescriptive Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Anti-Hazing Statute in Plain Language, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and Is Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

National Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: When the Organization Itself Admits Failure You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to read anything. A young person left for college and did not come home. A fraternity that was supposed to build brotherhood built a coffin instead. And now the organization itself has put words on a page that a trial lawyer reads the way a surgeon reads an X-ray — as a confession. In September 2017, an 18-year-old freshman at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge died as a result of a hazing incident at the LSU chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. A documentary series released on February 22, 2024, brought national attention back to the case. And Phi Delta Theta’s own published statement acknowledged something that most defendants spend millions trying to deny: that the organization “wasn’t doing enough to fight hazing.” We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle fraternity hazing wrongful-death cases. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is currently lead counsel in an active $10 million-plus hazing wrongful-death lawsuit against a university fraternity. Lupe Peña, our associate attorney, spent years inside…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Fraternity Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi and Every Liable Party Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite and Pull the Group-Chat Records and Hospital Intake Documents That Expose the Cover-Up, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Insurer Values and Denies These Claims, Chest Trauma and Commotio Cordis From Multiple Pledging-Ritual Strikes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is One of the Shortest Deadlines in the Nation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What Happened at Southern University and What Louisiana Law Lets a Family Do About It If you are reading this because someone you love was taken by a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, we want you to understand something before anything else: what happened was not an accident, and it was not a rite of passage that went wrong. It was a crime. Louisiana law says so in plain language, and the people who did it are already being arrested for it. But the criminal case is only one track. There is a second track — a civil track — and it is the one that lets a family hold every responsible party accountable, from the individuals who threw the punches to the national fraternity that failed to stop the culture that put those fists in motion. That second track has a clock. In Louisiana, that clock is one of the shortest in the nation. We are going to explain everything on this page — the law, the medicine, the evidence, the money, and the playbook the other side is already running — so that when you pick up the phone, you know exactly what…

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