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Jul 3, 2026

Max Gruver Died at .496 BAC in a Fraternity “Bible Study” Hazing Ritual — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternities and Their Chapters Accountable When Forced-Alcohol Poisoning Kills a Freshman Pledge, 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 Fraternal Liability Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, We Move to Preserve the GroupMe and Snapchat Logs, Pledge Records and National Fraternity Audit Files Before They Disappear, the Federal Stop Campus Hazing Act Mandates Campus Hazing Transparency, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and Survival-Action Doctrine Govern the Claim, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescription Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hazing-National Fraternity Hazing Deaths: Your Family’s Rights Under the New Federal Law The phone call came and the world stopped. Your son — your freshman, the one who was supposed to be finding his way at college, making friends, building a life — is dead or in a hospital bed because a fraternity decided that belonging had to be earned through a ritual that no sane adult would ever permit. You are reading this at an hour when nobody should be awake. The funeral may be over or it may be ahead of you. The fraternity has already called — not to apologize, but to manage what they call “the situation.” Someone used the word “tragic accident.” Someone else said your son “chose to participate.” Every one of those words is designed to protect the organization that killed him, and every one of those words is a lie. We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We build wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases against fraternities, universities, and the people who let hazing happen. On December 24, 2024, the president of the United States signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into federal law — a law that exists because families who lost children to hazing refused to let the word “accident” stand. That law changes what universities must disclose about the organizations that hurt your child. It also changes what your family can prove about a culture the fraternity industry has known about for decades and failed…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Bowling Green, Ohio — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities and Universities Accountable When Forced Binge-Drinking Rituals Kill Pledges, Stone Foltz Forced to Consume a Liter of Bourbon at a Pi Kappa Alpha Initiation, Three Days in a Coma, Fatal Alcohol Poisoning, We Pursue Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity and the Institutional Defendants Behind the Hazing Culture, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Liability Insurers and University Claims Offices Value and Deny These Cases, We Move to Preserve Group Chats, Disciplinary Files and Toxicology Records Before They Vanish, the Statute of Limitations Is Running, Ohio’s Collin’s Law and 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

Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — Who Pays When a Pledge Doesn’t Come Home The phone rings at 2 a.m. Your son is at a hospital in Bowling Green. He went to a fraternity event hours ago and now he is on a ventilator. The doctors use words like “blood alcohol” and “unresponsive” and “coma” and you try to assemble them into something that makes sense. It does not make sense. He is twenty years old. You dropped him off at a dormitory a semester ago. And now you are driving through the dark trying to reach Wood County Hospital before the next phone call — the one that changes everything permanently. If you are reading this page, that phone call has already come, or it is about to. We are here to tell you what happens next in the law, what to freeze before it disappears, and who is accountable when a fraternity ritual becomes a death sentence. What happened at Bowling Green State University in March 2021 is the blueprint of every hazing wrongful death case we know how to build. A 20-year-old sophomore — a pledge to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity — was taken to the basement of an off-campus house after an initiation event. He was forced to drink an entire liter of bourbon. He was told the members would take care of him. He was found unresponsive. He spent three days in a coma. He died on March 7, 2021, from acute…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Stone Foltz Died of Alcohol Poisoning After a Pi Kappa Alpha Bottle-Finish Pledge Ritual in Bowling Green, Ohio — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity and the University Behind the Coercive Pledge Rituals They Failed to Stop, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pull the Fraternity Group Chats, University Disciplinary Records and Security Footage Before They Are Overwritten, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Blames the Pledge and Denies Hazing Deaths, Ohio Wrongful Death Act and Court of Claims Jurisdiction Over Public Universities, the Firm Is Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit and 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 Hazing Wrongful Death: How Fraternity Initiation Rituals Kill — and Who Pays If you are reading this at 2 a.m., you already know what hazing does. You may be a parent who got the phone call no parent should ever receive — that your child was found unconscious after a fraternity event, dropped at an apartment like a piece of furniture that had become inconvenient, and that the doctors are saying the words “life support.” Or you may already be past that terrible night, living in the aftermath, holding a death certificate that says “acute alcohol intoxication” and a police report that names a fraternity ritual you never knew existed. We are writing this for you — the person sitting at a kitchen table in the dark, trying to understand how a 20-year-old who went to college to learn ended up dead at a fraternity house, and who is responsible for that. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Ohio wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases, and right now we are actively litigating a hazing wrongful death lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity. We know what a “Big-Little” bottle ritual is. We know what GroupMe messages look like when pledges are being told what to drink and how fast. We know that the university will say it had a policy and the fraternity will say the national office did not control the local chapter and the individual…

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Jul 3, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: Tim Piazza Died at His Penn State Fraternity After a Hazing Ritual in 2017 — Attorney911 Holds Universities and National Fraternities Accountable When Initiation Traditions Turn Fatal, the Stop Campus Hazing Act Now Amends the Clery Act to Force Disclosure of Hazing Statistics and Organizations Found Responsible, Pennsylvania’s Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing Law Makes Deadly Hazing Rituals a Felony and the Pledging Power Imbalance Overrides Assumption-of-Risk Defenses, We Move to Preserve the Disappearing GroupMe and Snapchat Messages, Security-Camera Footage on a 30-Day Overwrite Loop and University Disciplinary Records Before They Vanish, 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 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

Pennsylvania Hazing Lawyer: The Stop Campus Hazing Act Changes Everything — and It Started Here If you are reading this page, you already know the worst version of what a fraternity, a sorority, a band, a team, or a campus organization can do to someone’s child. You may be sitting in a hospital room, or you may be sitting with a death certificate that says “blunt force trauma” or “acute alcohol intoxication” or “asphyxia” when what actually killed your loved one was a ritual — a tradition built on the silence of everyone who came before and the powerlessness of the person it was done to. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we take hazing cases. We currently litigate an active hazing lawsuit. We know what these cases look like from the inside, because we are inside one right now. The federal government just changed the law in a way that directly helps your case. In late December 2024, President Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law — bipartisan legislation that amends the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act for the first time to include hazing as a reportable campus crime. This law exists because of what happened at Pennsylvania State University in February 2017, when a young man died as a direct result of a fraternity hazing ritual. His parents turned their grief into the Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing Law in Pennsylvania in 2018, and that…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Collin Wiant and Stone Foltz Died From Coerced Alcohol Consumption at Ohio Universities — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternities, University Administrations and Chapter Officers Behind the Forced Drinking That Drives Blood-Alcohol to Lethal Levels and Respiratory Collapse, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Set Reserves and Deny Claims, We Move to Preserve the Snapchat, GroupMe and Text Logs Before They Are Wiped, the Toxicology Reports, the Conduct Records and National Fraternity Audit Logs, Collin’s Law Redefines Coerced Consumption as Hazing and Strips the Consent Defense Fraternity Insurers Have Used for Decades, the State’s Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ohio Hazing Wrongful Death: Collin’s Law, the Law That Came Too Late, and the Fight That Has Only Begun If you are reading this at 2 a.m. — if your child is in the ground because a fraternity poured alcohol down a pledge’s throat until he stopped breathing, and the university that was supposed to protect him is already circling the wagons — then you are in the exact moment this page was written for. We are not going to give you a brochure. We are going to tell you, in plain language, exactly what the law is, who is responsible, what the evidence looks like, how fast it disappears, and what a case like yours is actually worth. Then we are going to tell you what to do in the next 72 hours, because the clock on the proof is already running. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 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 your family — and now sits on your side of the table. We are actively litigating a hazing case right now — a $10 million lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. We know how these defendants operate because we are fighting them today. What happened on July…

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Jul 3, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania — Attorney911 Pursues Beta Theta Pi and the National Fraternity After the Forced-Alcohol Gauntlet Ritual and 12-Hour Failure to Call 911 That Took the Life of Timothy Piazza, 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 Preserve the Basement Surveillance Footage, GroupMe Communications and Toxicology Records Before They Disappear, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Pennsylvania’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Act and the Antihazing Law Named for Timothy Piazza — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

State College Hazing Wrongful Death: Fraternity Liability, Pennsylvania Law, and the Fight After a Student Is Killed If you are reading this, you already know the worst version of what a fraternity can do to a family. The news that Penn State is buying the property at 220 N. Burrowes Road — the former Beta Theta Pi house where a 19-year-old student was killed during a hazing ritual in 2017 — is not closure. A real estate transaction does not hold anyone accountable. A $7.3 million purchase price does not measure what a life was worth. The deed reversion clause that dragged through litigation since 2018 is a property-law footnote. The wrongful death and survival claims are a separate fight, and they are the fight that matters. We are the trial team at Attorney911, and we build hazing wrongful death cases. We are currently lead counsel in a ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity — and what we know from that work is this: hazing deaths are never accidents. They are the foreseeable product of an organization that chose to run a dangerous ritual, chose to staff it with people who would not call for help, and chose to look the other way when a young person was dying on the floor of its basement. What happened in that house on Burrowes Road follows a pattern we know cold. A recruitment ritual built on forced, rapid alcohol consumption. A young man who fell — not once,…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death After a Forced-Alcohol Pledging Ritual Killed 18-Year-Old Max Gruver at LSU — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University Answerable for Negligent Supervision That Left a Pledge Unresponsive on a Couch Until Morning in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Set Reserves and Deny These Claims, We Secure the Cell-Phone Records, Toxicology Reports and Chapter Bylaws on a Preservation Clock While the Prescriptive Period Runs, Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Doctrine Under Pure Comparative Fault, 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 Your Child in Baton Rouge — What the Law Actually Does You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the grief is loudest. Your son went away to school — to LSU, to a campus that promised growth and friendship and a future — and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive a child. Maybe the call came from the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office. Maybe it came from a detective. Maybe it came from another pledge who was there and cannot sleep either. However you learned, you are now sitting with a fact that does not fit inside any sentence: your child is dead because of a ritual that the people who ran it called tradition and the law calls a crime. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take wrongful death and hazing cases in Louisiana, and right now we are also actively litigating a hazing wrongful death lawsuit against a university and fraternity in Texas. What we are about to tell you is not a sales pitch. It is a protect-and-arm brief — everything the other side is already doing, everything the law gives you, and everything that disappears if nobody moves fast enough to save it. Read it. Then call us at 1-888-ATTY-911. The consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. A jury in Baton Rouge — in the 19th Judicial…

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Jul 3, 2026

When a Big-Brother Hazing Ritual Turns Coercive Drinking Into a Fatal Alcohol-Poisoning Dose, Richmond, Virginia Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys Hold the National Fraternity, Its Chartered VCU Chapter and the Property Owners on Social-Host Liability — Adam Oakes, a 19-Year-Old VCU Freshman, Died at an Off-Campus Fraternity Hazing Event Four Days After Pledging Delta Chi, Attorney911 Secures the GroupMe and Snapchat Hazing Logs, the Toxicology Findings and the National Organization’s Internal Audits Before Auto-Deletion Erases Them, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent (8.2), Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, Virginia’s Wrongful-Death Act Entitles Bereaved Parents to Recovery for Loss of Solace While the Statute of Limitations Runs, 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 Wrongful Death — When a Pledge Doesn’t Come Home You sent your child to college. Four days later, you got the call no parent is built to survive. A fraternity ritual — what they called a “Big Brother” night — turned lethal, and the boy who left your kitchen table with a backpack and a schedule of classes came home in a way you never imagined. The police are at your door. The fraternity has already called its lawyers. And the university is drafting a statement that will make this sound like an isolated tragedy rather than what it is: a foreseeable, preventable death that happened because a system built on power and silence was allowed to run unchecked. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Virginia cases, working with local counsel as required, and we are currently litigating a multi-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity. We know what these cases look like from the inside — the evidence that disappears in days, the defenses the fraternity’s lawyers will raise, and the path from a death certificate to a courtroom where the truth is finally told under oath. This page is that path, laid out completely, so you understand exactly what you are in and exactly what to do next. What a Hazing Death Case Actually Is — and Why It Was Never an “Accident” The first word you will hear from the fraternity, from the…

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Jul 3, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death & Acute Alcohol-Poisoning Attorneys — When a National Fraternity Knew Its Chapter’s Documented History of Violence Yet Forced Pledges Into Toxic Consumption That Killed Freshman Sam Martinez at Washington State University, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Litigation to the Hazing-National Campus-Safety Crisis, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Secure the National Fraternity Disciplinary Files, Pledgemaster Messages and Toxicology Before Student Witnesses Graduate and Cell Data Overwrites, Washington’s Anti-Hazing Doctrine That Consent Is No Defense 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

When a Fraternity and a University Know the Danger and Stay Silent — Your Rights After a WSU Hazing Death You are reading this at the hour when the grief is sharpest. Maybe it has been days since the phone call, or maybe it has been months and the shock has hardened into a different kind of pain — the kind that comes from learning that the people who should have protected your child knew the danger was there, had investigated it, had even removed half the chapter for it, and still handed your son a bid and a bottle and sent him into a house they were simultaneously investigating for rape. We know that pain because we sit with families in it. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now our firm is litigating an active fraternity hazing wrongful death case — the Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi / University of Houston lawsuit — that raises the same structural questions this one does. The law that governs a hazing death at Washington State University is not a mystery. The fight is about whether anyone will force the truth into the open before the evidence and the witnesses are gone. Here is the first thing you need to hear: in Washington, consent is not a defense to hazing. The legislature wrote that into the anti-hazing statute — a student cannot “agree” to be poisoned, beaten, or degraded, and the fraternity cannot escape liability by…

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Jul 3, 2026

Texas State University Pledge Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Holds Phi Kappa Psi National Fraternity and Its Chartered Chapter Accountable After a Pledge Died During New Member Process Hazing and Alcohol, 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 GroupMe Logs, Toxicology Reports and Chapter-Consultant Audits Before Phones Are Reset and Accounts Deleted, the Fraternity’s Own Policy Changes Admit Its Old System Put Members in Peril, Anti-Hazing Law and Wrongful-Death Doctrine Open the Door to Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence — Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Texas Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: The Phi Kappa Psi Pledge Death at Texas State University You sent your son to college to build a future, not to be buried by a brotherhood that was supposed to protect him. Now you are sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning, staring at a funeral home’s card, trying to understand how a young man who was healthy and laughing on move-in day is gone — and how the organization that was supposed to welcome him is already circling the wagons. We are the trial team at Attorney911, and we build wrongful death cases against fraternities that haze. What follows is everything we know about what happened at Texas State, what the national fraternity has already admitted, and exactly what your family must do in the next 72 hours to protect the evidence that will decide your case. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911. The consultation is free, and we do not get paid unless we win. The Tragedy at Texas State: A Pledge Who Should Have Come Home In late 2017, a pledge at the Texas State University chapter of Phi Kappa Psi died during what the fraternity calls the “new member process.” He was one of four fraternity pledges who died at chapters across the country that year while participating in their respective pledging periods. Hazing or alcohol is suspected to have been a factor in each of those deaths. Texas State University sits in San Marcos, in Hays County, along…

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