Commercial Personal Injury Law

Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Monroe County, Pennsylvania: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Local Chapter and Rental Property Owner Behind the Glass Ceiling Ritual That Killed Baruch Freshman Michael Deng — Blindfolded, Loaded With a 30-Pound Backpack, Tackled and Kicked in the Head, Then Left Motionless for Over an Hour While Members Hid Fraternity Paraphernalia Before Driving 45 Minutes to the Nearest Hospital, the Forensic Finding That Delayed Treatment Significantly Contributed to His Death, We Pull the Cell Records and Fraternity Communications on a 12-to-18-Month Retention Cycle and the Autopsy Report Before Evidence Is Lost, Pennsylvania’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Act With Its 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ 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

The Death That Did Not Have to Happen: Michael Deng and the Fraternity Cover-Up That Made a Survivable Injury Fatal If you are reading this page, you already know something no parent should ever have to learn. A young person you love went away to college, joined an organization that promised brotherhood, and came home in a way no family should ever have to receive them — or did not come home at all. You are sitting with a grief that has a shape and a name, and you are trying to understand whether what happened was an accident or a choice, because that distinction is the difference between a tragedy you endure and a wrong someone answers for. We want you to know one thing before anything else: the forensic evidence in the Michael Deng case confirmed that timely medical care would have saved his life. A forensic pathologist determined that the one-to-two-hour delay in treatment significantly contributed to his death. That means this death was not inevitable. It was caused by specific decisions specific people made — the decision to blindfold an 18-year-old and send him through a gauntlet wearing a 30-pound backpack, the decision to keep going…

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Jul 22, 2026

Catholic School Football Hazing & Sexual Assault Lawsuit in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio: Attorney911 Holds Dioceses and School Administrations Accountable When a Four-Year Hazing Culture of Stomping, Choking and Sexual Assault Goes Unchecked on Multi-State Team Trips, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve Snapchat Videos, Phone Forensics and Hotel Surveillance Before the Evidence Window Closes, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Liability and Mandatory-Reporter Doctrine, Alleged Evidence Destruction Amplifies Punitive-Damages Exposure, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown Hazing Lawsuit: When the School Knew — and What Ohio Law Says About It If your child was hazed on a football team trip — if you are reading this at 2 a.m. because the complaint that just landed in federal court describes things done to a child that no child should survive — you are in the right place. Not because we have easy answers, but because we know the answers that exist in the law, and we know them cold. What happened in Youngstown, what the amended 290-page lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio alleges, and what the law of Ohio says a school must do when it learns children are being hurt under its watch — that is what this page is built to tell you, plainly, completely, and without a single sentence of salesmanship. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle hazing, sexual assault, and institutional negligence cases. We are not the counsel on this case. What follows is what we know as trial lawyers who litigate these cases — the law, the evidence, the medicine, the money, and the playbook the other side…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Alcohol-Poisoning Brain Injury Attorneys: Daniel Santulli, 19, Left Unresponsive After a Phi Gamma Delta Pledge Father Reveal Party in Columbia, Missouri — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter, the Advisory Board and the House Supervisor Behind Organized Alcohol Provision to Minors, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Social Media, Group Chats and Risk-Management Files Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute Sets the Standard of Care and Pledge Coercion Nullifies Voluntary-Participation Defenses Under Pure Comparative Fault, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia, Missouri Fraternity Hazing Injuries: Your Legal Rights and Path to Compensation The phone call comes at night. Your son is at a hospital. Or worse — he is at a rehabilitation facility in another state, and the word the doctor uses is “unresponsive.” You learn there was a fraternity party. You learn there was alcohol — not college-kids-drinking alcohol, but organized, ritualized, dangerous quantities of alcohol pressed on a young person who wanted nothing more than to belong. And now your child is never coming home the way he left. We are Attorney911. We handle fraternity hazing cases. What happened at the Phi Gamma Delta house at the University of Missouri in October 2021 — a 19-year-old student catastrophically brain-injured by alcohol poisoning during a “Pledge Father Reveal” party, left permanently unresponsive, his family facing more than $1.8 million in medical bills and a lifetime of around-the-clock care — is not an isolated tragedy. It is a pattern. And the law in Missouri gives families more power than most people realize to hold every person and every institution that enabled it accountable. We write this page as the senior trial attorneys who know this fight — not as the…

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Jul 22, 2026

Maxwell Gruver, an 18-Year-Old LSU Freshman, Died of Alcohol Poisoning and Aspiration in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Ritual — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternity Organizations Accountable for Hazing Wrongful Death, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, 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 Pursue the National Organization, the Local Chapter and the Members Who Furnished Lethal Alcohol to a Pledge Under Coercive Conditions, Louisiana’s Civil-Law Duty-Risk Analysis and Anti-Hazing Doctrine, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Reports Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, 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 Takes Your Child: What Louisiana Law Says About Hazing Death If you are reading this, your family has been hit by something that should never have happened. Your son went to college — maybe just weeks ago, maybe just days — and a fraternity turned a promise of brotherhood into a death sentence. The phone call you got was not supposed to come. The room he died in was supposed to be a place where he made friends, not where he took his last breath. We know no words on a page can undo that. What we can do is tell you, plainly and completely, what the law actually says, what the institutions that let this happen are already doing to protect themselves, and what you can still do to hold them accountable. A Baton Rouge jury returned a $6.1 million verdict for the family of an 18-year-old Louisiana State University freshman who died of acute alcohol poisoning and aspiration during a hazing ritual at a fraternity house in 2017. His blood-alcohol content was reported at six times the legal driving limit. He had been enrolled at LSU for approximately one month. The verdict is real, it…

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Jul 22, 2026

Settlement reached in NMSU hazing lawsuit – KOAT

Las Cruces NMSU Hazing Settlement: What an $8 Million Resolution Means for Student-Athlete Sexual Assault Victims If you are reading this because your child came home from college changed — quieter, flinching at sounds, dropping a sport they loved, unable to explain what happened inside a team culture that was supposed to protect them — you are in the right place. What happened at New Mexico State University is not an isolated story. It is a pattern that plays out at universities across this country, and the $8 million settlement those young men and their families reached is proof that the law recognizes what was done to them as real, compensable, and wrong. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes New Mexico cases, and we are writing this page as a resource for every family in Las Cruces and across this state who needs to understand what happened at NMSU, what the law says about it, and what to do if it happened to someone you love. We were not counsel in the NMSU case. We are here because what happened there is not unique, and the families who come next…

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Jul 22, 2026

School Hazing & Sexual Abuse by Coaching Staff in Kingfisher, Oklahoma: A Fight-Club Football Culture, Negligent Supervision and a $5M Settlement Taxpayers Now Bear — Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pursue the School System, the Coaching Staff and the Administrators Who Failed Their Mandatory Reporting Duties, We Secure Personnel Files, Student Complaint Records and Locker-Room Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Title IX and Oklahoma’s Anti-Hazing and Child-Abuse Reporting Laws, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Kingfisher School Hazing Settlement: What Happened, What the Law Says, and What You Can Still Do If your child played football at Kingfisher High School — or if you are a parent in any Oklahoma community who suspects a coach crossed the line from discipline into abuse — you are reading this at a moment when the institution you trusted most has become the one that failed your family. A small town of roughly 5,000 people along U.S. Highway 81, about 35 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, just learned that its school board voted 4-1 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the head football coach and other coaches encouraged what has been described as a “fight club-like culture” of bullying, hazing, and abuse — including sexual abuse. The settlement totals $5 million, with $1.25 million paid from district funds and $3.75 million assessed to approximately 5,000 property owners over three years, potentially raising property taxes by up to 12%. The district also paid $1.4 million in legal fees. The coach now faces criminal child neglect charges and will never coach at the district again. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death, University Park, Pennsylvania: Timothy Piazza, 19, Penn State Sophomore, Dead After Beta Theta Pi Pledge Ritual Produced a 0.28–0.36 BAC, a Fall Down Basement Stairs, and a Delayed 911 Call While Security Cameras Recorded His Final Hours — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization, the Local Chapter, the House Corporation and the University’s Greek-Life Oversight, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi 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 Security Footage, Fraternity Texts and University Oversight Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Pennsylvania Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Plus the Furnishing-to-Minors Prohibition That Undermines the Comparative-Fault 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

University Park, Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Death: The Civil Liability Framework for Hazing Wrongful Death If you are reading this because your child was hospitalized after a fraternity event — or because someone you love did not come home from one — you are in a moment where the ground has dropped out from under you. The phone call, the hospital waiting room, the police officer at your door: those moments do not feel like the beginning of a legal process. They feel like the end of a life. But the law has something to say about what happened, and what it says matters. We are writing this page because a case in University Park, Pennsylvania — the 2017 hazing death of 19-year-old Penn State sophomore Timothy Piazza at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity — just reached the end of its criminal proceedings. Two former fraternity leaders, the chapter president and vice president, were sentenced to two to four months in prison with work release, three years of probation, and community service. They had pleaded guilty to 14 counts of hazing and one count of reckless endangerment. They were the last criminal defendants sentenced in a case that changed Pennsylvania law.…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Death in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Warehouse Owner Behind the Pledging Ritual That Killed a 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior — Repeated Blunt Chest Trauma, No 911 Call, a Fabricated Basketball Story at the Hospital, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage and Group-Chat Records Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is Among the Shortest in the Nation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Fraternity 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

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — What Louisiana Law Allows, What the Evidence Shows, and Why the Clock Is Already Running If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it was days ago and the grief is still a physical weight in your chest. Maybe it has been weeks and the shock has hardened into something worse — the slow, grinding realization that the people who killed your child are still walking around, still free, still telling themselves stories about what happened. You came here because you heard about what happened at Southern University — a 20-year-old junior, a mechanical engineering student, a trumpet player in the Human Jukebox marching band — dropped off at a hospital unresponsive at midnight, with a group of young men claiming he collapsed playing basketball. You heard that the police chief said it was a lie. That he died because he was punched in the chest, over and over, inside a warehouse, while pledging a fraternity. That no one called 911. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes fraternity hazing wrongful death cases — and right now, we are the only firm in the country actively…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Student Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Baton Rouge — Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi and Every Individual Behind the Boxing-Glove Pledging Ritual Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Commotio Cordis: How Four Chest Punches With Only a Small Bruise Trigger Fatal Cardiac Arrest, We Preserve Off-Campus Surveillance, Participant Cell-Phone Records and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite and Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Clock Runs, 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 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 Becomes a Death Sentence: Your Family’s Rights in Louisiana You are reading this because someone you love is gone. Not from a disease they couldn’t fight, not from an accident nobody could prevent — from a ritual. A ritual that young men designed, organized, and ran in a room in Baton Rouge, where they put boxing gloves on their hands and punched your son in the chest until his heart stopped. And then, when he fell, not one of them picked up a phone. They watched. They waited. And when they finally carried him to a hospital, they lied about what happened and walked out the door before anyone could ask them the truth. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana cases, and we know what hazing does to families because we are living it right now in another case. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a fraternity at a major university. We know the culture. We know the cover-ups. We know the playbook the other side has already started running against your family. And we know…

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Jul 22, 2026

School Football Hazing, Sexual Assault & CSAM on a Hazing-National Multi-State Trip: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing-Institutional-Liability Case to School Trip Cases Where Coaches Knew and Dismissed Sexual Assault as Boys Being Boys, We Pursue the School, the Diocese and the Supervising Coaches Who Failed Their Mandatory-Reporter Duty, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Institutional Claims Are Valued and Denied, We Move to Preserve Snapchat Data and Player Devices Before Ephemeral Evidence Is Permanently Lost, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy and the Extended Filing Window for Childhood Sexual Abuse, 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 Lawsuit: Sexual Assault, CSAM, and Institutional Accountability Under Ohio Law If your child was on that football trip — if you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your son told you what happened to him in a hotel room in Florida or Alabama or Tennessee, and a coach called it “boys being boys” — you are in the right place. What happened to your child was not hazing. It was not a tradition. It was not a rite of passage. It was criminal sexual assault, it was kidnapping, and the recording and sharing of it on Snapchat was the production and dissemination of child sexual abuse material under federal law. The fact that adults who were paid to supervise your child knew about it and failed to stop it — and then dismissed your report with five words that will follow them into a courtroom — is what turns this from a tragedy into a case. We are Attorney911. We handle hazing and institutional sexual abuse cases, and we are currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a fraternity and a major university. That case, like this one, involves a young person…

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