Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Fraternity Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge — A 20-Year-Old Mechanical Engineering Junior Punched Repeatedly During an Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual, Collapsed With a Seizure, and Died: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity’s Liability Coverage, the Business Owner Who Provided the Off-Campus Premises, and Every Entity That Allowed This Culture to Persist, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Fraternity Records Before They Are Destroyed, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and the One-Year Prescriptive Period Running From the Date of Death, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What the Law Says, Who Is Responsible, and What Your Family Must Do Now The phone call that changed your family came in late February. Your son went to a pledge ritual at a flooring company off campus. He was punched — four times, the police say — and he collapsed. He had a seizure. He stopped responding. And by the time anyone told you the truth about where he had been and what had been done to him, he was already gone. The people who carried him to the hospital did not tell the doctors what happened. They said he collapsed playing basketball. Then they left before the police arrived. That lie is not just a detail. It is the first piece of evidence in your case, and it tells you everything about who these people are and what they were willing to do to protect themselves after your child was killed. Three arrests have been made. More may come. But the criminal arrests are only one piece of the accountability picture. The civil case — the lawsuit that holds the fraternity, the business owner, and the institutions accountable — is how the full…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Death Prompts Soul-Searching for Divine Nine – Capital B News

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: Louisiana Law, Commotio Cordis, and What a Family Can Do After a Fraternity Ritual Turns Fatal A 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior at Southern University — a musician in the school’s celebrated Human Jukebox marching band — walked into a warehouse in Baton Rouge on a February night for what he believed was part of joining a brotherhood. He never walked out. Three men took turns punching him and the other pledges in the chest with boxing gloves. He collapsed. And then, instead of calling 911, the people around him changed his clothes, drove him to a hospital emergency room, and told the staff he had been hit in the chest playing basketball. That lie is not just a moral outrage. It is a legal weapon. On September 29, the East Baton Rouge Parish coroner ruled his death a homicide — caused by a rare cardiac event called commotio cordis, where a blunt blow to the chest at the wrong moment in the heart’s electrical cycle stops the heart cold. Three fraternity members face felony hazing charges. One faces manslaughter. The family has filed a lawsuit against the university, the fraternity, and several individuals. If your family…

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Jul 22, 2026

UT Austin Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — Sawyer Updike, 18, Driven to Suicide After Months of a Fishhook Through His Leg, Cigarette Burns, a Staple Gun to the Hip, Beatings and Forced Cocaine at the Sigma Chi Alpha Nu House on Nueces Street in Austin, Travis County, Texas — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the House Corporation Behind the Hazing Culture, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Phone Evidence, Hazing Photos and UT Disciplinary Files Before Members Scatter and Devices Are Wiped, the Wrongful-Death Clock Running from January 16, 2024, Texas Anti-Hazing Law Makes Consent No 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

The Hazing Death Nobody Stopped — and the Law That Says It Was Never Your Child’s Choice If you are reading this page, you already know the worst. A young man you love went away to college — in this case, to the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest and most respected universities in the country — and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive a child. Or you are reading this because you saw what happened to someone else’s son and you are terrified it could happen to yours. Either way, you are in the right place, and the first thing we need you to hear is this: what happened was not your child’s fault, and Texas law says so in writing. An 18-year-old freshman from Pearland, Texas, accepted a bid to pledge a fraternity’s Alpha Nu Chapter at UT Austin in August 2023. What followed, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his parents, was months of what can only be called torture — a fishhook speared through his leg, repeated cigarette burns, a staple gun driven into his hip, physical whippings and beatings, coerced use of cocaine,…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death & Wrongful-Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Flagstaff Campus Where Three Fraternity Members Face Criminal Hazing Charges After an 18-Year-Old Student’s Death, We Pursue the Individual Members, the Local Chapter, the National Fraternity Organization and the University That Failed to Supervise, Arizona’s Anti-Hazing Statutes Create Civil Liability and the State Constitution Forbids Damage Caps on Wrongful Death, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Group-Chat Records, Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, University Disciplinary Files and Autopsy Findings, the University Notice-of-Claim Deadline Runs Far Shorter Than the Statute of Limitations, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Civil Rights After Criminal Charges You are reading this because someone you love — an 18-year-old who should be starting their adult life — is gone. Three fraternity members at Northern Arizona University have been arrested and charged with hazing in connection with that death. The criminal case is real and it matters. But it is not your family’s case. The prosecutor represents the State of Arizona, not you. No one from the criminal system is building a claim for your family’s loss, your child’s suffering, or the lifetime of what was stolen. That is a separate fight — a civil fight — and it is the one that actually answers to you. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that handles hazing wrongful death cases, and we are writing this for one purpose: to give you the truth about what the civil justice system can do that the criminal system cannot, what evidence is disappearing right now while you grieve, and what deadlines are already running that you cannot afford to miss. Your child is not blamed for what happened. Hazing exploits vulnerability and power imbalance — the law recognizes this, and…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death in Flagstaff: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization and the Local Chapter That Furnished Alcohol to an 18-Year-Old at a Delta Tau Delta Rush Event Where He Was Found Unresponsive the Next Morning, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Social Media Posts, Surveillance Footage and Coconino County Toxicology Before They Are Scrubbed on a 7-30 Day Overwrite Cycle, Arizona’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Liquor Laws Prohibiting Alcohol to Minors Build the Negligence-Per-Se Claim, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Pure Comparative Negligence With No Damages Caps, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at Northern Arizona University — and What It Means for Your Family Your child left for college in Flagstaff. He was 18 years old. He went to a fraternity rush event on a Friday evening at an off-campus residence, and by Saturday morning he was gone — found unresponsive, with the Coconino County Medical Examiner now working to determine why. Three fraternity members who held executive positions in the Delta Tau Delta chapter have been arrested on hazing charges. Northern Arizona University has suspended the fraternity, releasing a statement that violence, hazing, or any behavior endangering others has no place at the institution. We are writing this for the family — the people who got the call, who drove to Flagstaff, who are sitting in a place they never expected to be, trying to understand how a child who left home for his first year of college is now at the medical examiner’s office instead of in a classroom. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases, including fraternity hazing deaths, and we currently litigate a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. We are not your…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio: Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities Like Pi Kappa Alpha Accountable When Forced-Alcohol Initiation Rituals Turn Fatal, Stone Foltz, a BGSU Sophomore, Died Three Days After a Hazing Event at a Pi Kappa Alpha Initiation Where He Was Made to Drink Alcohol and Was Kept Alive for Organ Donation, Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Remedy, Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for His Three Days of Conscious Suffering, We Secure the Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Reports Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit Against a National Fraternity, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, 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, Ohio Fraternity Hazing Death: What the Family of a Hazing Victim Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in a fraternity hazing incident at Bowling Green State University — or anywhere in Ohio — you are in a moment that no family should ever have to live through. You are standing in the wreckage of a promise that was made to your child and broken in the worst way possible. A university was supposed to educate them. A fraternity was supposed to brotherhood them. Instead, an organization that publishes words like “zero-tolerance” let a ritual built on coerced alcohol consumption take your child’s life. We are going to tell you the truth about what happened, what the law says about it, and what you can do — because the truth is the one thing the fraternity’s lawyers are already working to make sure you never fully hear. Hazing is not an accident. It is not a tradition that went too far. It is a preventable act of organizational recklessness, and Ohio law gives families specific civil remedies to hold the people who permitted it fully accountable. My…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Catastrophic Brain Injury: Daniel Santulli, an 18-Year-Old Phi Gamma Delta Pledge at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Suffered Permanent Anoxic Brain Injury at a 0.486 BAC After the Pledge Father Reveal Tradition Forced Him to Drink a Bottle of Tito’s Vodka — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organizations and Local Chapters That Knew of Six Alcohol Violations and Two Prior Hazing Incidents Yet Failed to Enforce Their Own Anti-Hazing Policies, 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 Attorney Who Knows How the Fraternity Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Surveillance Footage, Group-Chat Records and University Disciplinary Files Before the Footage Overwrites and the Messages Are Deleted, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute Makes Consent No Defense, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia, Missouri Fraternity Hazing Lawyer: When a Pledge Night Becomes a Life Sentence If you are reading this at two in the morning, sitting in a hospital chair next to a child who will not wake up, we are talking to you. Not to a courtroom. Not to a search engine. To you — the parent who dropped your son off at college in September and got the call in October that he was carried into University Hospital not breathing, his lips blue, his heart stopped, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.486 — a number so high that most people never reach it alive. We know what you are feeling is beyond language. We also know that what happened to your child was not an accident, not a choice, and not his fault. It was a system — a tradition built to strip young people of their ability to say no, enforced by a power structure that the national organization knew about, the university documented, and nobody stopped. We are Attorney911, and we handle hazing cases with the specificity and ferocity they demand. What follows is everything we know about how a case like this is built, what the medicine…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Stone Foltz, a BGSU Sophomore, Died of Alcohol Poisoning After an Off-Campus Hazing Ritual Near Bowling Green, Ohio in Which Pledges Were Told to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha’s National Organization Behind the Local Chapter and the Public University Whose Anti-Hazing Enforcement Duties Were at Issue, 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 Preserve Fraternity Communications, University Greek-Life Oversight Records and Hospital Toxicology Before They Are Deleted or Purged, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Sovereign-Immunity Framework That Governs Public-University Hazing Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Hazing Death: How a $10 Million Settlement Was Built — and What It Means for Every Family Facing the Same Fight If your child came home from a fraternity event and didn’t come back — or if you’re reading this because someone else’s child didn’t — you already know that the hardest part isn’t understanding what happened. It’s understanding how so many people and institutions let it happen, and whether the law can hold any of them accountable. It can. Ohio has a statute written specifically for this. The settlements in the Bowling Green case — more than $10 million from the university, the national fraternity, and the individuals who organized the ritual — prove that the system that failed your child can be made to answer for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death cases, and we are currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity. We know this fight because we are in it. What follows is everything the law, the medicine, and the evidence teach us about a fraternity hazing death in Ohio — written for the person who needs…

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Jul 22, 2026

Adam Oakes, 19, Told to Drink a Large Bottle of Whiskey at a VCU Delta Chi Hazing in Richmond, Virginia — Dead by Morning From Alcohol Poisoning, the $28 Million Wrongful-Death Suit and the Path to Holding a National Fraternity Accountable: Attorney911 Pursues the National Organization, Its Educational Foundation and the Insurers Behind Forced-Alcohol Pledging Rituals, 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 Fraternity Carriers Set Reserves and Invoke Hazing Exclusions to Deny Claims, We Preserve the Group Chats, the Medical Examiner’s Toxicology and the National Organization’s Enforcement Records on a Retention Clock, Virginia’s Wrongful-Death Act and Anti-Hazing Law That Makes Consent No Defense Against Pure Contributory Negligence, Six Misdemeanor Convictions and Zero Jail Days, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Richmond, Virginia Fraternity Hazing Death: The $28 Million Lawsuit and What It Means for Every Family Facing a Hazing Loss If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your child is gone — because a fraternity told them to drink something no human body can survive, and then left them on a floor to die — you are in the worst moment of your life, and you are also in a fight you did not choose. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened at Virginia Commonwealth University in February 2021, what the law in Virginia actually says about hazing deaths, who can be held accountable, what the evidence looks like, what the money is, and what the fraternity’s insurance company is already doing to make this go away cheaply. This is not a news recap. This is the legal map of a hazing wrongful death case in Virginia, built by trial attorneys who have stood in this fight. A 19-year-old freshman from Loudoun County received a bid to the Delta Chi fraternity at VCU. He was told to drink a large bottle of whiskey as part of a hazing ritual. He was found dead…

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Jul 22, 2026

Mizzou Fraternity Hazing & Catastrophic Brain Injury: Danny Santulli’s Blindness and Around-the-Clock Care After Forced Alcohol Consumption at Phi Gamma Delta’s Pledge Dad Reveal Night in Columbia, Boone County — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternity Organizations Accountable When Their Own Investigations Identify a High Tolerance for Hazing and a Bystander Effect Yet They Fail to Act, 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 Preserve the Internal Investigation Documents, University Disciplinary Records and Surveillance Footage Before They Disappear, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Comparative-Negligence Framework, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Fraternity Hazing Turns Catastrophic in Columbia, Missouri: What the Documents Prove and What Your Family Can Do The phone rings at midnight. Your son is at University of Missouri Hospital. The voice on the other end says he was found unconscious at a fraternity house. By the time you reach Columbia from wherever you live, the neurologist has already told you the words no parent is prepared for: the brain damage is catastrophic, permanent, and irreversible. He cannot see. He cannot speak. He cannot walk. He will need around-the-clock care for the rest of his life. If you are reading this page, you may be that parent. Or you may be the parent who got the call early enough — whose child survived but came home changed, traumatized, injured in ways the fraternity dismisses as “just what happens during pledge season.” Either way, you are in the same moment: the moment you realize that what happened to your child was not an accident. It was a system. And the system had warning after warning after warning before it ever reached your family. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes hazing cases, and we write this…

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