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Jul 3, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys — Harrison Kowiak, 19, Killed by Repeated Tackling in a Theta Chi Initiation Ritual at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Against the National Fraternity, Its Chapter, and the University That Failed to Supervise, We Secure the Group Chats That Exposed the Football-Game Cover Story, the Campus Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, and the Neuropathology Reports Proving the Tackling Caused the Brain Swelling and Bleeding, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s National Insurer Values and Denies Hazing Claims, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, North Carolina’s Wrongful-Death Act and Harrison’s Law, Where Peer Coercion in a Fraternity Ritual Negates Any Consent or Assumption-of-Risk Defense — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hickory, North Carolina Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — What Harrison’s Law Means for Your Family When a fraternity calls a family to say their son was “hurt playing football,” and the family arrives at a trauma center hours later to find fraternity members with bloodshot eyes in muddy clothing who have been there all night — that mismatch is where a hazing wrongful death case begins. The story told to the family is almost never what actually happened. In Hickory, North Carolina, a 19-year-old student-athlete died after what his fraternity brothers initially described as a football accident. He was not playing football. He was running across a field in light-colored clothing, told to touch a rock, while being tackled from all sides — a hazing ritual. He hit his head. His brain swelled and bled. He died the next day. That phone call, the false story, the delayed truth — this is the pattern we see in hazing deaths across the country. And the evidence that proves what really happened is disappearing on a clock that has already started. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes North Carolina hazing cases, and we are currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. We know what the fraternity’s insurance company does in the hours after a death, because one of our attorneys used to sit on their side of the table. And we know what the evidence looks like before it…

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Jul 3, 2026

Stop Campus Hazing Act Violations & Campus Hazing Injury Attorneys: 56% of U.S. Colleges Missed the December 23 Federal Transparency Deadline — Attorney911 Holds University Boards and Greek Organizations Accountable When Hidden Hazing Records at Hazing-National Colleges Become Catastrophic Injury or Wrongful Death, 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 University Risk Management Shields These Cases, We Archive Non-Compliant Website Snapshots and Pull Clery Act Coordinator Files Before Schools Revise Them, SCHA and Clery Act Violations as Negligence Per Se, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Including $5M+ in TBI Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When 800 Colleges Stay Silent: What the Stop Campus Hazing Act Compliance Failure Means for Your Family If you are reading this at 2 a.m., you already know something has gone wrong. Your child came home from a semester and told you what happened to them at a fraternity event, a band initiation, a sports team bonding ritual. Or worse — you got the call no parent should ever receive. And now you are searching for answers, and what you are finding is that the school your child trusted may have already broken the law designed to protect them. Here is what we know as of the latest compliance data: more than 800 colleges and universities — 56% of the nearly 1,500 institutions surveyed — missed the December 23, 2025, deadline to publish their Campus Hazing Transparency Reports under the federal Stop Campus Hazing Act. One-quarter of schools provide no hazing information on their websites at all. Only 42% offer an online form to report hazing. This is not a minor paperwork problem. It is a mass failure of the federal law written after decades of student deaths — and if your child was harmed by hazing at a school that hid its prior violations, that silence may be the most powerful evidence in your case. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston, filed…

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Jul 3, 2026

UTSA Alpha Tau Omega Hazing Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity and Its Iota Epsilon Chapter Accountable for Waterboarding Pledges, Dark-Room Confinement, Hell-Week Sleep and Food Deprivation, and Forced Furnishing of Alcohol to Minors in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 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 the Fraternity Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the GroupMe Logs, Witness Statements and UTSA Conduct Findings Before They Disappear, Texas Anti-Hazing Law Provides Civil Causes of Action and the Statute of Limitations Is Running From the Fall 2022 Incident, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

San Antonio UTSA Alpha Tau Omega Hazing: Waterboarding, Hell Week, and the Clock That Is Running Out on Your Right to Sue If you are reading this, you already know what happened. You were a pledge at Alpha Tau Omega’s Iota Epsilon chapter at the University of Texas at San Antonio, or you love someone who was. In Fall 2022, that fraternity decided that “brotherhood” meant strapping you down and pouring water over your face until your body believed it was drowning. It meant locking you in a dark room for hours with no food, no water, and no phone. It meant forcing you to furnish alcohol to minors and perform unwanted tasks for active members, all under the banner of a “Hell Week” designed to break you so you could be remade. You may have stayed silent for nearly two years. Most people in your position do. The shame, the fear, the thought that maybe this was just “how it works” — all of it keeps you quiet until one day the weight becomes unbearable and you report it, the way someone finally reported this in May 2024. That report triggered two investigations at UTSA, and the university’s Student Conduct and Community Standards office found Iota Epsilon responsible for hazing. The UTSA Police Department referred the case to the Bexar County District Attorney’s office for criminal review. The fraternity’s president publicly claimed the chapter was “acquitted of all allegations” — but the university’s own Associate Vice President confirmed the…

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Jul 3, 2026

Miami University Fraternity Hazing & Paddle Assault Attorneys: Attorney911 Litigates the National Fraternity That Had Notice From Prior Hazing Cases in 2019 and 2022, Its Chapter Officers and the Alumni Who Beat a Pledge With Paddles and Canes Across Oxford, Butler County, Ohio and the Dayton Suburbs Until He Was Hospitalized Practically Catatonic From Weeks of Sleep Deprivation and Psychological Manipulation, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Disciplinary-Hearing Transcript, Hospital Records and GroupMe Communications Before Members Graduate and Disperse, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Law Gives Pledges a Civil Cause of Action Against Every Participant and Organization That Permitted the Abuse, 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 at Miami University Could Have Killed Someone — and Ohio Law Says You Can Hold Them Accountable If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your son, your daughter, your partner, or you yourself came home from a fraternity pledging process at Miami University looking like a different person — hollow-eyed, flinching at sounds, unable to sleep, covered in bruises you were told not to talk about — you are in the right place. What you are looking at is not “tradition.” It is not “bonding.” It is assault, battery, and psychological torture, and the state of Ohio wrote a law specifically to let you sue the people and the organizations that did it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes hazing cases in Ohio and across the country. Right now, we are lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston — a case built on the same kind of facts you are living through: a pledge subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation, and psychological manipulation by an organization that promised brotherhood and delivered a chamber of horrors. We know this fight because we are in it. Here is what we know about what happened at Miami University in Oxford, Butler County, Ohio: a historically Black fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, was suspended through 2040 after the university found that pledges were beaten with paddles and canes over a period…

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Jul 3, 2026

Chase Meola Fatal Fraternity Shooting & Wrongful Death: Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio Premises Liability and Negligent Security Attorneys — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity Behind Its Suspended Chapter’s Underground Party and the University That Failed to Enforce Its Own Suspension, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice With the Firm’s Active $10M+ Fraternity Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Greek-Organization Captives and CGL Policies With Assault-and-Battery Exclusions Value and Deny These Claims, We Pull the Prior-Incident Reports, Security Footage and Disciplinary Records Before They Disappear, the Foreseeability of Violent Crime in a Known High-Risk University District With No Patrols, No Cameras, No Lighting, Ohio Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Court-of-Claims Process, 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 Suspended Fraternity Keeps Throwing Parties and a Student Dies Outside Its Door If you are reading this near the anniversary of someone you lost to campus-area violence — a son, a daughter, a friend who should still be here — you already know the worst part is not the death. The worst part is discovering that the people who could have prevented it knew the danger was there and did nothing. A fraternity was suspended. It kept operating anyway, serving alcohol, drawing crowds, opening its doors to strangers in a neighborhood everyone knew was dangerous. A university knew this was happening. Nobody stopped it. And now your family is left with a grave and a question: does the law let anyone answer for this? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take wrongful-death and negligent-security cases in Ohio, working with local counsel where the case requires it. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he is lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university — a case built on the same kind of institutional failure you are reading about here. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm before he switched sides. He knows how the other side prices claims, sets reserves, and designs delays — because he was the one doing it. We are writing this page so that when you finish reading it, you know more about your rights…

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Jul 3, 2026

Ohio State ATO Fraternity Hazing Suspension & Student Injury Attorneys: Attorney911 Represents Pledges and Families in Hazing-National Greek-Life Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter, the House Corporation and the Individual Officers Behind Coerced Pledging Rituals, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Pledge Manuals and University Investigation Files Before They Disappear, Collin’s Law, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Statute That Makes Hazing a Felony When It Causes Serious Physical Harm, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ohio State Alpha Tau Omega Hazing Lawsuit: What the 2029 Suspension Means for Victims and Families If you are reading this page, your son came home from Ohio State different — or he did not come home at all. Maybe he called you at 3 a.m. from a bathroom floor. Maybe the university called you instead. Maybe you found out through the news that Alpha Tau Omega has been suspended until 2029, and you are only now connecting that announcement to the night your child stopped being himself. We are going to tell you exactly what that suspension means, what your rights are under Ohio law, and what to do in the hours and days ahead — because the decisions you make right now will decide whether the people who hurt your son ever answer for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes hazing cases, and we are currently litigating a hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity — a $10 million case filed in Harris County, Texas, in November 2025. The medicine of hazing injuries, the corporate-accountability fight against a national fraternity, and the evidence-preservation work do not change because the campus is in Columbus instead of Houston. Our hazing practice handles exactly this kind of case, and we work with Ohio local counsel as required so your son’s case is filed by attorneys who know this court system. The call is free. The consultation is free. We do not get…

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Jul 3, 2026

UVA Fraternity Hazing Injury & Wrongful Death Attorneys: When Fear of Retaliation Keeps Students Silent, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternities and Local Chapters Behind Pledge-Line Coercion and Forced Alcohol Ingestion, We Pull the GroupMe Logs, Chapter House Security Footage and National Fraternity Internal Audits Before the Digital Footprint Is Scrubbed, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Adam’s Law and Virginia’s Consent-Negating Hazing Doctrine, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims & Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Fear of Retaliation Keeps You Silent at UVA — Your Rights Under Virginia’s Hazing Law You are reading this at a hour when nobody is supposed to know you are awake. Maybe you are the pledge who survived something at a house on Rugby Road and is now getting text messages from the brother who organized it — messages that say, in not quite these words, keep your mouth shut or your life on Grounds is over. Maybe you are the parent who drove up to Charlottesville and found your son or daughter changed — withdrawn, anxious, drinking alone, flinching at a door slamming — and the university’s silence is telling you everything the official emails are not. Maybe you are the one who heard what happened to someone else and is terrified that saying something will make you the next target. We know what the culture of silence looks like at a place like UVA, where Greek life is woven into the social architecture so deeply that reporting a fraternity can feel like reporting the university itself. The fear of retaliation is not paranoia — it is a documented legal phenomenon, and under Virginia law, it is also the reason the statute was rewritten to take the “consent” defense away from the houses that haze. What happened to you, or to your child, is not a rite of passage. It is a crime under Virginia law, a civil wrong with a damages path, and the people who…

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Jul 3, 2026

Stillwater Fraternity Hazing Injury Attorneys — OSU Kappa Sigma Removed After 105 Years, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Housing Corporation and Chapter Officers When Coerced Pledging Causes Harm, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Active Lead Counsel in the $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve GroupMe Records and Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Oklahoma Treats Coerced Hazing as Non-Consensual Under Its Anti-Hazing Law, $50M+ Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at 1401 West University — and What It Means for Your Family You are reading this because something happened at the Kappa Sigma house on West University Avenue in Stillwater. Maybe your son came home from a pledge event and was not the same. Maybe you got a call from the hospital. Maybe you are the student yourself, sitting alone with a injury you have not told anyone about because the people who did it told you it was “tradition” and you believed them — until the news broke that the entire chapter was shut down, and you realized what happened to you was not normal and was not your fault. The Gamma-Psi chapter of Kappa Sigma has been removed from Oklahoma State University. Its national charter has been withdrawn by the international fraternity. The building at 1401 West University — a house affiliated with Kappa Sigma since May 13, 1920, more than 105 years — has been leased to a different entity for a four-year term. The chapter is gone. The members are scattering. That removal is not a slap on the wrist. When a national fraternity revokes a charter that has existed for over a century, it means the investigation found something severe enough to override the institution’s own institutional self-preservation. The fraternity did not protect its own reputation by quietly disciplining a few members. It killed the chapter. That tells you the evidence was bad. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We…

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Jul 3, 2026

Tulane Freshman Haussman’s Hazing Injury: Struck Between the Eyes by a 24-Ounce Beer Can at a Phi Kappa Sigma Initiation in New Orleans, Severe Concussion and Loss of Consciousness With No Emergency Services Called, Fraternity President’s Cover-Up the Next Day — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and the University Under Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Felony Law, 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 Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Preserve the GroupMe Messages and Cover-Up Texts Before Auto-Delete Erases Them, Chronic Concussion TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Fraternity Hazing Injury Lawyer — When the Tradition Is a Crime and the Cover-Up Is the Proof If you are reading this at 2 a.m. with a headache that will not stop, or a parent sitting across from a child who came home from a fraternity event changed — quieter, angrier, forgetting words they used to know — you are in the right place. What happened to that student was not an accident, and it was not a tradition. Under Louisiana law, it was a crime. The fact that someone called the next morning to tell your child to lie about where it happened proves they knew exactly what they had done. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are trial attorneys who take catastrophic injury and hazing cases in Louisiana, and we are currently lead counsel in an active multi-million-dollar fraternity hazing lawsuit. The page you are reading is built to tell you the truth about what happened, what the law says about it, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what to do in the next 72 hours — because in Louisiana, the clock on your right to sue is shorter than almost anywhere else in America. Can You Sue If You “Voluntarily Participated” in Hazing? — Yes, and Here Is Why The first thing every hazing victim hears, from the fraternity, from the university, and sometimes from their own doubts, is the same line: you chose to be there. That…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Injury & Rhabdomyolysis Attorneys for the Texas A&M Kappa Sigma Pledges Hospitalized With Black Urine After Hundreds of Forced Squats to Exhaustion in the Mud at the Lodge in College Station, Brazos County — 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, the Local Chapter and the Alumni Housing Corporation Behind the Ritual, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the GroupMe and Snapchat Communications Before Phones Are Wiped and the CK Levels and Medical Records Before They Are Amended, Texas Hazing Law Invalidates Any Consent Defense and Opens the Door to Exemplary Damages for the Gross Negligence of Pushing Pledges to Collapse and Then Instructing Them to Lie to Doctors, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

College Station Hazing Injury: The Kappa Sigma Rhabdomyolysis Crisis at Texas A&M If you are reading this at 2 a.m. from a hospital chair in College Station, watching your son’s urine turn the color of used motor oil and trying to understand how a “fraternity event” landed him on an IV drip — you are in the right place, and you are not alone. What happened to your son on September 14, 2025, at the Kappa Sigma Lodge was not a tough workout, a bonding ritual, or a tradition that went slightly too far. It was a medical emergency inflicted on him by people who knew better, concealed by people who told him to lie to the very doctors trying to save his kidneys. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, and right now we are actively litigating a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a Texas university fraternity in Harris County. The law that protects your son is the same law we are fighting under today, and the first thing you need to hear is this: your son did not consent to kidney damage, and Texas law agrees with you. What Happened at the Kappa Sigma Lodge on September 14, 2025 The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed the basic outline: on September 14, new members of Kappa Sigma at Texas A&M were told to attend an off-campus event at the Kappa Sigma Lodge. When they arrived, current fraternity members took the pledges to a secluded area and forced…

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