Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Negligent Supervision Attorneys: A Pledge Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury After Basement Beatings and Blunt-Force Head Trauma at SAE’s Founding Chapter in Tuscaloosa, Alabama — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and the Local Chapter Structure Behind a Hazing Ban Left Unenforced, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Member Communications and Chapter Records Before the 30-Day Overwrite, 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, TBI ($5M+ Recovered), Alabama’s Anti-Hazing Law and Pure Contributory-Negligence Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Tuscaloosa Fraternity Hazing Lawyer — SAE Pledge’s Traumatic Brain Injury and the National Organization That Let It Happen Your son went to the University of Alabama to get an education. He came home from the emergency room with a traumatic brain injury. He told you what happened in that fraternity basement — or the parts he could remember between the blows to the head — and what he described is not a tradition. It is a crime. The people who did this to him called it pledgeship. The law calls it hazing, and in Alabama, that is something a family can take to court. You are sitting at a kitchen table in Tuscaloosa, or maybe you drove three hours from Birmingham, or you flew in from out of state because your child goes to school here and you never thought this would happen. The hospital sent him home with a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury and post-concussive syndrome. The fraternity has not called. The university sent a form letter. Someone at the national organization said they banned hazing in 2014 — but your son was beaten in their basement last month, and nobody stopped it. We handle these cases. Not…

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Jul 22, 2026

After Timothy Piazza Consumed 18 Drinks in 82 Minutes During a Penn State Fraternity Pledge Initiation and Fell Down Basement Stairs Suffering Severe Head and Abdominal Injuries — Pennsylvania Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organizations, Shuttered Chapters and Security Companies Behind Pledge Rituals That Turn Deadly, We Preserve the Surveillance Video, Cellphone Records and Fraternity National-Organization Documents Before the Overwrite Cycle Destroys Them, the Anti-Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Act Provide Separate Civil Remedies Including Survival Damages for Two Days of Conscious Pain and Suffering After the 40-Minute Delay in Calling for Help, 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, 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 Hazing Death: What the Beta Theta Pi Sentencing Means for Families Seeking Justice If you are reading this because your child was hurt or killed in a fraternity hazing event — or because you watched the news about the sentencing of two former Penn State fraternity leaders and you need to understand what the law actually allows a family to do — you are in the right place. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, and we are writing to you the way we would speak to a family across a kitchen table: plainly, honestly, and with the full weight of what we know about how these cases work. On October 1, 2024, a judge in Centre County, Pennsylvania, sentenced the former president and the former vice president of Beta Theta Pi’s Penn State chapter to two to four months in jail, followed by three years of probation and community service. They had pleaded guilty to fourteen counts of hazing and one count of reckless endangerment — all misdemeanors — in connection with the February 2017 death of Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old engineering sophomore from Lebanon, New Jersey, who consumed at least eighteen drinks in eighty-two minutes during a…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi’s National Organization and Local Chapter, the Warehouse Operator, and the University Behind the Pledging Ritual That Killed a 20-Year-Old Mechanical Engineering Student Punched Repeatedly in the Chest — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing and 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 Warehouse Surveillance Footage, Cell Phone Records and Fraternity Pledge Files Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: Southern University Student Killed in Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual — Louisiana Legal Rights Explained You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to read anything. Your family lost a young man — a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student, a musician in Southern University’s Human Jukebox marching band, a person with decades of life ahead — and the way he died is something no family should ever have to learn about. He was punched in the chest, repeatedly, during a pledging ritual for a fraternity he wanted to join. That is not an accident. That is not a tradition. Under Louisiana law, that is a crime, and it is also something the civil law was specifically written to let your family hold people accountable for. The first thing you need to hear, and the most important thing on this entire page, is this: your child is not at fault. Louisiana’s anti-hazing statute exists specifically because the legislature understood that the power dynamics of pledging make participation non-voluntary in every sense that matters legally. A pledge who shows up to a ritual is not “consenting” to being beaten — he is responding to coercion that…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson, 20, Southern University Human Jukebox Marching Band Member, Killed by Repeated Boxing-Glove Chest Punches in an Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Hazing Ritual at a Baton Rouge Warehouse, Collapsed and Seized as the Group Falsely Reported a Basketball Collapse: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Chapter for Wrongful Death Under Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Statute With Its Civil-Penalty Provision, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Invoke Hazing Exclusions, We Preserve Warehouse Surveillance and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite, 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 Hazing Ritual Kills a Student in Baton Rouge If you are reading this page, you may have just learned that what happened to your child, your sibling, your student, or your friend was not an accident at a basketball park. You may have learned that the story you were told first — the story about a young man collapsing during a pickup game — was a lie constructed in the hours after he died, while the people who knew the truth drove to a hospital, dropped him off, and left before anyone could ask a real question. You may be sitting with a police report that finally says what actually happened, and you may be wondering whether the criminal charges you see on the news are the only accountability available to your family. They are not. What happened in Baton Rouge on February 27, 2025, was a crime, and the criminal prosecution of the individuals who punched a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student in the chest until he collapsed, seized, and died is necessary and important. But criminal court is not the only courtroom. Louisiana built a civil remedy specifically for this kind of death — a law…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Fraternity Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson: Baton Rouge Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the National Fraternities, Local Chapters, and Premises Owners Behind Off-Campus Hazing Rituals, 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 and Denies These Cases, We Secure Warehouse Surveillance Footage and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, Commotio Cordis From a Chest Blow at an Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual and the Failure of Every Person Present to Call 911, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Statute 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 a Fraternity Ritual Kills Your Child and No One Picks Up the Phone Your son went to college to build a future. He is never coming home. The people who killed him were the ones he trusted enough to call brothers — and when he collapsed on the floor of a warehouse in Baton Rouge, not one of them dialed 911. That fact is going to sit in your chest for the rest of your life. We cannot change it. What we can do is make sure the law does not let it stand quietly. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases, working with local counsel where the rules require it. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. He is currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit — a $10 million case against a fraternity and a university in Harris County, Texas. That case is not this one. But the architecture of a hazing death — the culture that made it possible, the organization that failed to stop it, the individuals who chose violence, and the silence…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and Every Liable Party Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act — 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, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Pledge Witness Statements and Hospital Intake Records Before They Disappear, Commotio Cordis: How a Boxing-Glove Chest Blow With Minimal Visible Trauma Causes Lethal Cardiac Arrhythmia, the Failure to Call 911 and the False Basketball Cover Story as Independent Civil Claims, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Running From February 27, 2025, 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 Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Southern University Student Is Killed During Initiation You are reading this because someone you love is gone. A young man who should be in class right now, or at band practice, or studying for an engineering exam, is instead at the center of a criminal investigation and a news story that uses his name in headlines. The people who called themselves his brothers punched him in the chest until his heart stopped — and then they drove him to a hospital and lied about how he got there. You are angry, you are grieving, and you do not know what happens next. Here is what happens next. Louisiana gives a family whose child was killed by hazing the right to hold every person and every institution that caused that death accountable in civil court — not just the individual who threw the punches, but the fraternity that organized the ritual, the national organization that failed to stop it, and the university that failed to protect the student it enrolled. But Louisiana also gives that family one of the shortest deadlines in the nation to act. The clock started the…

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Jul 22, 2026

Alabama high school grad arrested in Caleb Wilson’s Louisiana HBCU fraternity hazing death – AL.com

When a Fraternity Hazing Ritual Kills: Louisiana Law, the Max Gruver Act, and Your Family’s Right to Hold Every Level Accountable If you are reading this because someone you love was killed in a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, here is the first thing you need to know: Louisiana gives you one year. Not two years, not three — one year from the day your loved one died to file a civil wrongful death claim, and that clock is already running. The criminal arrests you are seeing on the news do not pause it. The police investigation does not pause it. And while you are grieving, the evidence that would prove what really happened — the surveillance video from the building where it happened, the cell phone messages between the people who were there, the witness memories of the other young men who stood in that room — is disappearing on its own schedule, not yours. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful death and hazing cases, working with local counsel where required. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Fatal Fraternity Hazing in Baton Rouge: A 20-Year-Old Southern University Student Punched With Boxing Gloves at an Off-Campus Warehouse Until He Seized and Collapsed With No 911 Call — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities Accountable in Hazing Wrongful-Death Cases, 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 Warehouse Surveillance and Pledge Communications Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Grover Act and One-Year Prescriptive Period, 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 Fraternity Hazing Death: What Louisiana Law Allows Your Family to Do If you are reading this because someone you love was taken by a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, you are standing in a moment that is already running out of time. Louisiana gives families one year — not two, not five, one — to file a wrongful death claim. That clock started the day your loved one died, and it does not pause for grief, for funerals, for criminal proceedings, or for the shock of understanding what actually happened. Every day that passes is a day closer to the date when the courthouse door closes permanently. What happened to Caleb Wilson — a 20-year-old Southern University mechanical engineering major and trumpet player in the Human Jukebox marching band — was not an accident. According to police, he was punched four times in the chest with boxing gloves during a fraternity pledging ritual at a warehouse off campus. He had a seizure and collapsed. Nobody called 911. Instead, his clothes were changed, he was loaded into a car, and the people who drove him to Baton Rouge General Medical Center told the hospital staff he had collapsed…

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Jul 22, 2026

MSU Hazing Death of Phat Nguyen: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the University and the Property Owner Behind the Pi Alpha Phi Ritual That Forced Pledges to Drink to Blackout and Die to Be Reborn — One Did, of Alcohol Intoxication, Others Found Stripped Unconscious in the East Lansing Fraternity House Basement, 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 Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, We Preserve the Toxicology Reports, Fraternity Communications and University Disciplinary Records Before the Disbanded Chapter’s Evidence Vanishes, Michigan’s Wrongful-Death Act With Exemplary Damages for Willful and Wanton Hazing Conduct, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

East Lansing Fraternity Hazing Death: Michigan Law, Garrett’s Law, and the Civil Case After a Pledge Dies If you are reading this page, someone you love did not come home from college. A young man walked into a fraternity house in East Lansing as a pledge and never walked out. The police were called at 1:58 in the morning. By the time they arrived, he was already gone. The autopsy said alcohol intoxication. The people who were supposed to be his future brothers had spent the night pouring drinks into him until he blacked out — because that was the ritual. That was the point. You are in the worst moment a family can face, and you are probably being told things that are not true: that it was an accident, that he chose to drink, that no one could have seen this coming. We are here to tell you what the law actually says — in Michigan, in East Lansing, in Ingham County — and what it lets a family do when a fraternity turns a pledge night into a death sentence. This page is not a brochure. It is the work product of a trial team that handles…

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Jul 22, 2026

School Hazing & Sexual Assault of a Minor: When Son King, a Ursuline High School Football Player, Was Stripped, Sexually Assaulted, and Recorded by Teammates During a Nine-Day Camp Road Trip Through Florida, Alabama and Tennessee — Coaches Downplayed It as ‘Just Boys Being Boys,’ Administrators Allegedly Deleted the Evidence — Attorney911 Holds the School and the Diocese Behind the Cover-Up, 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 Send Snapchat Preservation Letters Before the Auto-Delete Window Closes and Pursue Forensic Recovery of Deleted Social Media, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy, Federal Child-Sexual-Exploitation Laws, Mandatory-Reporter Failures by School Personnel, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown School Hazing Sexual Assault: When the Adults Who Were Supposed to Protect Your Child Became the Cover-Up If you are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and your child has finally stopped pretending to sleep, you already know something no parent should have to learn. Your son told you what happened on that football trip — or you found out because someone else’s child let it slip, or because a video appeared on a phone, or because a coach called it “boys being boys” and your stomach dropped through the floor. You are sitting with a fact that changes everything: the people you trusted with your child — a school, a coaching staff, a diocese — failed him in the most profound way a child can be failed, and then some of them tried to make sure nobody ever found out. We are Attorney911. We litigate hazing cases. Right now, in Harris County, Texas, our managing partner Ralph Manginello is lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit seeking $10 million from a university and a fraternity for what was done to a young man under the banner of “tradition.” That case is in Texas. This…

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