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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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Jul 3, 2026

McNeese Kappa Sigma Hazing Investigation & Student Injury Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Lake Charles, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity and Its Local Chapter Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act for the Forced Consumption, Physical Abuse, and Humiliation Behind Pledge Hazing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Claims Team Moves to Suppress Liability, We Preserve GroupMe and Snapchat Communications, Pledge Manuals, and House Surveillance Video Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Closes Fast — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

McNeese State Hazing Investigation: Your Rights Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act After the Kappa Sigma Incident If you are reading this on the night of October 8, 2025 — one day after the McNeese Police Department opened a criminal investigation into what happened at the Kappa Sigma house at 5:25 p.m. on October 7 — you are either the student who was hurt, the parent who just got the phone call, or someone who knows what really happened in that house. Whichever one you are, the same truth applies: the evidence of what was done to you is already disappearing, and the clock on your right to do something about it is shorter in Louisiana than in any other state in this country. We are Attorney911, and this page is built for the person in that moment — not to sell you anything, but to tell you exactly what the law gives you, what the fraternity is already doing to protect itself, and what to do in the next 72 hours before the proof is gone. What Happened at McNeese State on October 7, 2025 The facts that are public are these: on October 7, 2025, at approximately 5:25 p.m., an alleged hazing incident occurred at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house on the campus of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The incident came to light through an anonymous tip submitted to the McNeese Police Department — a tip stating that Kappa Sigma has been hazing. The McNeese Police…

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Jul 3, 2026

WKU Kappa Sigma Hazing Injury Attorneys: Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity and Its Theta-Theta Chapter Behind the Pledge Rituals That Ended in a Five-Year University Ban at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing & Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the National Fraternity’s Carrier Values and Denies These Claims, We Preserve the Disciplinary Committee Reports, GroupMe Communications and Social Media Footage Before They Disappear, Kentucky’s Anti-Hazing Law Makes Certain Acts Felonies and the State Constitution Bars Damages Caps, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green Fraternity Hazing Lawyer: WKU Kappa Sigma Sanctions and Your Family’s Rights You are reading this at a moment no parent prepares for. Your son or daughter went away to Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green — to learn, to grow, to find a community — and came home hurt, or called you in the middle of the night, or stopped calling at all. A fraternity that was supposed to be brotherhood turned into something else. Now you are sitting at a kitchen table or in a hospital waiting room, trying to understand what happened, what it means, and what you can do about it. We are going to tell you — plainly, completely, and without holding anything back. The Theta-Theta chapter of Kappa Sigma at WKU has been stripped of university recognition for five years following a hazing incident in the Fall 2025 semester. A disciplinary committee of thirteen faculty and staff members investigated, and in mid-March 2026, WKU severed ties: the chapter cannot operate as a student group, host events, recruit members, or affiliate with the university through 2031. A university spokesperson confirmed what happened in plain language: “The university maintains zero tolerance for hazing and will act swiftly when it determines that such conduct has occurred.” That sanction is real. It validates what your family has been living. But it is not compensation, and it is not accountability from the organization that actually harmed your child. “The university maintains zero tolerance for hazing and will act…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Injury & PTSD Lawsuit — Charleston, South Carolina, College of Charleston Sigma Chi: Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity, the Iota Epsilon Chapter and the University Behind Forced Alcohol to Blackout, Sock-Gagging, Condiment Assault and Cross-State Stalking That Drove William Ide to PTSD, Suicidal Ideation and Out-of-State Mental-Health Treatment, 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 Fraternal Risk Management Trust and National Carrier Layers Value and Deny These Claims, We Preserve the GroupMe Logs, the Shaming Video and the Hospital Records Before Social Media Auto-Deletes Them, South Carolina’s Anti-Hazing Law and the Tucker Hipps Transparency Act, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Charleston, South Carolina Fraternity Hazing: What Happened to Your Child and What the Law Can Do About It Your son left for the College of Charleston in the fall of 2021 as a six-foot, 170-pound varsity hockey player — confident, close to his family, engaged with his education. Within a month he was in a hospital with facial hives, rashes, and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. He had been gagged with his own socks, pelted with eggs and beer cans, forced to drink vodka until he choked, held upside down by his ankles and made to drink a week-old keg until he blacked out — and then the people who did it to him recorded his suffering and shared it with other students as entertainment. That is what the lawsuit filed in Charleston County describes. And if you are reading this page because something similar happened to your child — at Sigma Chi, at another fraternity, at the College of Charleston or any university in this state — you need to understand three things right now: what happened is a crime under South Carolina law, the people responsible include more than just the students in the room, and the evidence that proves it is disappearing on a clock that started the day it happened. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes South Carolina hazing cases, and the call to us is free. Who Can Be Sued in a South Carolina Hazing Case The lawsuit filed by…

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Jul 3, 2026

VCU Hazing Wrongful Death: Adam Oakes, 19, Dead of Alcohol Poisoning After Forced Whiskey in a Delta Chi Hazing Ritual in Richmond, Virginia — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities and Their Chapters Accountable, Ralph Manginello 27+ Years Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña Former Insurance-Defense Insider on Fraternity Carriers and Hazing Exclusions, We Preserve GroupMe Logs and Police Bodycam Footage Before Deletion, Virginia Wrongful Death Act and the Hazing Statute That Bars Assumption-of-Risk, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Fraternity Kills Your Son: What Virginia Law Actually Says About Hazing Deaths in Richmond You are reading this at a kitchen table or a funeral home or a hospital cafeteria at two in the morning, and someone you raised is dead because a fraternity decided that belonging was worth a bottle of whiskey and a human life. We know what that moment feels like — not because we have lost the same way, but because we have sat across that table with families who have, and because right now we are litigating a hazing death case that began the same way this one did. We are Attorney911, and we take wrongful death cases in Virginia, and this is what we need you to know before you read one more word on the internet about what happened to your family. Here is the first thing: Virginia law was written for this. Not by accident — after a hazing death, Virginia’s legislature passed a law named for the young man who died, and that law sits on top of an anti-hazing statute that already says something most families never learn until a lawyer tells them: a person who was hazed is not deemed to have consented or assumed the risk. That single sentence is the wall between your family and the defense the fraternity’s insurance company is already building in its file — the argument that your son “chose” to drink. He did not choose. The law says he did…

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Jul 3, 2026

Adam Oakes Hazing Death at VCU in Richmond, Virginia: 19-Year-Old Freshman Coerced Into a Bottle of Jack Daniel’s, Abandoned at .419% BAC — Attorney911 Pursues Delta Chi’s National Organization for Reinstating a Chapter VCU Had Suspended, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Lock Down GroupMe Messages and Toxicology Records Before They Vanish, Virginia’s Pure Contributory-Negligence Rule Defeated by Coercion and Incapacity, Millions Recovered 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: The Delta Chi $28 Million Lawsuit and What Every Family Needs to Know If your family found this page, you already know the worst thing a parent can know. A son or daughter went to college, joined something they believed in, and did not come home. You may be reading this at 2 a.m. with a death certificate on the table and a fraternity’s press release in your inbox saying how ” saddened” they are. We are going to tell you, straight through, what the law actually says about what happened, what the fraternity’s lawyers are already doing about it, and what your family can still do. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death cases and fraternity hazing cases, including active hazing litigation we filed ourselves. What happened at Virginia Commonwealth University on February 26, 2021 — the death of a 19-year-old freshman during a Delta Chi “Big Brother ritual” — is not a tragedy that defies explanation. It is a death with a mechanism, a chain of decisions, a history of warnings ignored, and defendants who are counting on your family never learning what Virginia law actually gives you. The Incident: What Happened on February 26, 2021 A 19-year-old freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University had accepted a bid to join the Delta Chi fraternity. On the night of February 26, 2021, he attended a party to begin the initiation process. What followed…

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Jul 3, 2026

Campus Hazing Injury & Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 and Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo Excellent 8.2 Rating, Taking Hazing-National Claims Under the Stop Campus Hazing Act That Amends the Clery Act, We Pursue the Universities, National Greek Organizations and Alumni Housing Corps Behind Coerced Alcohol Consumption, Physical Abuse and Psychological Harm, Consent to Join a Group Is Not Legal Consent to Be Abused, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Self-Insured University Claims Teams and Institutional Risk Pools Set Reserves and Deny, We Pull the Disciplinary Files, the University’s Own Hazing Violation Records as Prior-Notice Evidence, Group Chats and Toxicology Records Before Digital Evidence Disappears, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) to Wrongful Death, New York’s No Cap on Non-Economic Damages and Pure Comparative Negligence Rule — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Hazing Crosses the Line at Cornell: Your Rights Under New York Law and the New Federal Stop Campus Hazing Act If you are reading this at 2 a.m., you are probably the parent of a student who came home different — or the student yourself, sitting alone with something that happened to you that you cannot quite name yet but that you know was wrong. Maybe your son or daughter is in the hospital. Maybe they are not coming home at all. Maybe the university has already called, and the voice on the other end sounded sympathetic and careful and you could not shake the feeling that the person talking to you was protecting the institution before they were protecting your child. We are trial lawyers who fight for people harmed by hazing. We know what hazing does to a body and a mind, and we know the exact legal machinery that holds the institutions behind it accountable. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911 — the consultation is free, the call is confidential, and we do not get paid unless we win your case. The federal Stop Campus Hazing Act, signed into law in December 2024, changes the national landscape of campus hazing accountability. It amends the Clery Act to require every college and university receiving federal funding to include hazing incidents in their Annual Security Reports and to maintain a public transparency website documenting hazing violations and sanctions. One university — Cornell — has been doing exactly that for twenty…

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Jul 3, 2026

VCU Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys — Adam Oakes, 19, Died of Ethanol Toxicity When an Off-Campus Pledging Ritual in Richmond, Virginia Turned Forced Alcohol Consumption Lethal, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Local Chapter Behind the Coercive Family-Drink Tradition That Adam’s Law Was Passed to Prevent, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Secure the Group-Chat Data, Autopsy Toxicology and Fraternity Risk Manuals Before Messages Self-Destruct and the Wrongful-Death Filing Window Closes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows the Fraternity’s Carriers Will Blame the Victim Under Virginia’s Contributory-Negligence Rule, We Defeat That Defense With the Science of Coercive Intoxication and Lost Capacity to Consent, 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: Holding Delta Chi and the System That Killed Your Child Accountable If you are reading this page, you already know what hazing can do. You may be a parent who sent a bright, eager freshman off to college and received a phone call no parent should ever have to answer. You may be a cousin, a sibling, a friend who watched a family turn grief into a foundation, a law, a memorial bench — and who wonders whether anyone will ever truly be held responsible. You may be sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning, looking at a news story about a five-year anniversary and realizing that what happened to someone else’s child could happen to yours, or already has. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Virginia cases, working with local counsel and pro hac vice admission where the case requires it. Ralph Manginello has been licensed and practicing law for 27+ years, including in federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means he learned early that the story nobody is telling is usually the one that matters most. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, sitting in the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours — and now he sits on your side of the table. We are writing this page…

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Jul 3, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful-Death Attorneys — Timothy Piazza, a Penn State Sophomore, Fell Down the Beta Theta Pi Staircase After Coerced Alcohol at Bid Night in State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, and the Fraternity Waited Hours While His Traumatic Brain Injury Worsened to Death: Attorney911 Pursues Beta Theta Pi’s National Organization and the Insurers Behind These Chapters Under the Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing Law and Pennsylvania’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Acts, 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 Move to Preserve the GroupMe Messages, Security Footage and Pledge Records Before They Vanish, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ with $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

State College Hazing Lawsuits: Penn State Fraternity Assault, Paddling & Wrongful Death You are reading this because someone you love came home from a fraternity event with bruises they will not explain, or with a story they cannot finish, or because they did not come home at all. You already know something is wrong. What you may not know is that the law in Pennsylvania was rebuilt specifically for this — that a sophomore’s death in 2017 changed the criminal statute, that a university-commissioned report in 2024 proved the reforms did not work, and that five fraternities were suspended in 2025 alone for the same patterns that were supposed to have ended. We are Attorney911, and we build hazing cases. Ralph Manginello is lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit right now — a $10M case against a university and a fraternity — and we know exactly how these organizations operate, how they hide, and how to force the evidence into the light before it disappears. The call is free. The consultation is confidential. And we do not get paid unless we win your case. Call 1-888-ATTY-911, any hour, any day. What Happened at Penn State — and Why It Did Not Stop In February 2017, a Penn State sophomore accepted a bid at a fraternity the university had once called “a model chapter.” That night of celebration and ritual ended in his death two days after he fell down a staircase after consuming excessive amounts of alcohol. The case…

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Jul 3, 2026

Wichita State University Hazing Injury & Campus Negligence Attorneys: The Stop Campus Hazing Act Makes Consent Irrelevant — Attorney911 Represents Students and Families Harmed in Fraternity, Sorority and Athletic-Team Initiation Rituals, We Pursue the University, the National Greek Chapters and the Student Organizations Behind the Hazing, 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 Pull the Campus Hazing Transparency Report, Internal Investigative Files and Group-Messaging Records Before They Disappear, the SCHA’s Five-Year Record-Keeping Mandate Preserves the Evidence, Kansas’s Comparative-Fault Rule and Punitive Damages for Willful or Wanton Disregard of Student Safety, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a “Tradition” Sends Your Child to the Hospital — Your Rights Under the New Federal Hazing Law at Wichita State You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to be awake. Your son called from a dorm or a fraternity basement, or a roommate found him unconscious, or a hospital in Wichita called to say your daughter was brought in by ambulance from an initiation event that nobody warned you about. The university’s “Student Life” office has already called — sounding concerned, sounding helpful, sounding like they are on your side. They are not. They are on the university’s side, and everything they say to you is being guided by people whose first job is to protect the institution’s reputation and its federal funding. Here is the first thing you need to hear, and it is the single most important sentence on this page: on December 24, 2024, federal law changed. The Stop Campus Hazing Act was signed into law that day, and it amends the same statute that governs campus crime reporting at every college in the country — the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. The law now defines hazing with surgical precision, and it says something the fraternity defense industry has spent decades fighting against: a victim’s willingness to participate does not matter. The statute’s own words are “regardless of the willingness of such other person or persons to participate.” That phrase is the death of the…

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