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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha and the National Fraternity Oversight Structure Behind the Local Chapter, the University That Knew of Hazing Traditions and Failed to Enforce Its Own Anti-Hazing Policy, Alcohol Poisoning From a Coercive Bottle-Finish Pledge Ritual That Left a 20-Year-Old on Life Support for Three Days, We Pull the Fraternity Group Chats, University Enforcement Records and Toxicology Findings Before Witnesses Graduate and Messages Vanish, Eight Criminal Convictions That Lock In Civil Liability, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act and Anti-Hazing Law With the Comparative-Fault Defense Reframed Through the Coercive Power Imbalance of Pledging, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Deaths, the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Hazing Death: How a Fraternity Tradition Killed a 20-Year-Old — and How the Law Holds Every Layer Accountable If you are reading this page, someone you love has been hurt or killed by a fraternity tradition that was never an accident. Maybe your son is in an ICU right now. Maybe you are planning a funeral for a child who went to college to learn and died trying to join a club. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a letter from a university lawyer who says the school “actively enforced” its anti-hazing policy and that the lawsuit is “meritless.” That word — “meritless” — is a litigation posture, not a moral judgment. The fact that a settlement followed tells you what the institution really knew. What happened at Bowling Green State University in March 2021 is not a mystery. A 20-year-old student from Delaware, Ohio, attended a fraternity initiation event where the tradition was for new members to finish — or attempt to finish — a bottle of alcohol. He was found unconscious after members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity dropped him off at his apartment. He died three days after being placed on life support. His family recovered nearly $3 million from the university and more than $7 million from the fraternity and the individuals involved — the largest hazing settlement by a public university in Ohio history. Eight former fraternity members were convicted of crimes including reckless homicide,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death: After Max Gruver, an 18-Year-Old LSU Freshman, Died of Acute Alcohol Toxicity in a Phi Delta Theta Hazing Ritual in Baton Rouge, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapter and the University, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Fraternity House Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle, the Pledge-Class Group Chats and the Coroner’s Toxicology Report, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Felony Statute Strengthens the Civil Claim Under the State’s Civil-Code Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Fraternity Pledge Dies: What Happened at LSU and What It Means for Every Family If you are reading this page, you may be a parent who sent a child to college and got a phone call no parent should ever receive. You may be a sibling, a friend, or a family member trying to understand what happened — and what can be done about it. You may be reading about the verdict in Baton Rouge and wondering whether what happened to your family, or a family you know, can be pursued the same way. We are going to tell you everything we know about how a hazing death becomes a wrongful death case in Louisiana — the law, the defendants, the evidence, the money, the medicine, and the playbook the other side will run against you. This is the page we wish every family could find at 2 a.m. when the shock is still fresh and the questions have no answers yet. Here is what we know happened: In September 2017, an 18-year-old Louisiana State University freshman died after an alcohol-related hazing ritual while pledging a fraternity on or near the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. His parents filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit naming the university, the national and local fraternity organizations, and individual members. A jury in Baton Rouge awarded the family $6.1 million. The family had previously reached an $875,000 settlement with LSU, which was factored out of the jury award, along with additional undisclosed…

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Jul 22, 2026

Timothy Piazza Hazing Death & Fraternity Wrongful Death in Centre County, PA: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organizations, Local Chapters and Universities Behind Alcohol-Fueled Pledge Rituals and Delayed Medical Response That Killed a 19-Year-Old Sophomore, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Fraternity-House Surveillance Footage, Pledge Communications and Toxicology Reports Before They Are Lost, Pennsylvania’s Timothy Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Criminal Sentencing Is Over. The Civil Case Has Not Begun. The sentencing is done. Two young men who led the fraternity the night your child died will serve a few months — and then go home. You sat in that courtroom in Bellefonte and heard the judge’s numbers, and something in you broke differently than it broke at the funeral. Because the sentence told you something about what the criminal system thinks this life was worth. And it was not enough. It was never going to be enough. What happened inside that fraternity house in Centre County was not an accident. It was a system. The alcohol was not random — it was the ritual. The falls were not bad luck — they were the foreseeable result of a ritual designed to push a pledge past the point of self-preservation. And the silence that followed — the hours when no one called 911 — was not confusion. It was a decision. The criminal case prosecuted individuals. The civil case goes after the system that put them there and kept them there — the local chapter that ran the event, the national fraternity organization that owed a duty to police its own house, the university that recognized the organization and was supposed to enforce its own rules. Those defendants were not in the courtroom. Their insurance was not on the table. Their records were not subpoenaed. That fight has not happened yet. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm.…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Critical on Life Support After Alleged Pi Kappa Alpha Alcohol Hazing at a BGSU Off-Campus Event in Bowling Green, Ohio — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Individual Members Behind Coerced Alcohol Consumption During Pledging, We Move to Preserve Group Chats, Snapchat Messages and Witness Statements Before They Auto-Delete Within 24 Hours, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy and Social Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to Persons Under 21, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and 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: What Happened at BGSU and What Ohio Law Lets a Family Do About It Your son is on life support. The national fraternity put out a statement saying he was dead before he was dead — and then had to retract it. You are standing in a hospital hallway in Bowling Green while reporters call your phone and fraternity members you have never met are already deleting their group chats. You do not know what happened inside that off-campus house on March 4. You do know your son went in alive and came out on a ventilator. Everything else is what they are telling you — and what they are erasing. We are going to tell you what Ohio law actually gives a family in this moment, what evidence is being destroyed while you read this, and what the people responsible are already doing to protect themselves. None of it is theoretical. We currently litigate a hazing case — Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi, a $10 million lawsuit against a University of Houston fraternity — and the machinery of a hazing case is the same whether the chapter is in Harris County, Texas, or Wood County, Ohio. The names change. The playbook does not. What happened to your son was not an accident. It was not a prank. It was not “kids being kids.” It was the foreseeable result of an institutional culture that a national organization knew about and failed to stop — despite…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Bleach-Burn Esophageal Injury Attorneys in Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi: Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity and the Chapter Behind Hell Week Initiation Rituals That Sprayed Caustic Bleach Into a Pledge’s Mouth and Eyes, Leaving Grade 4 Erosive Esophagitis With Chemical Burns Across the Entire Esophagus, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Fraternity Liability, We Move to Preserve the Social-Media Footage, Cyberstalking Messages and Chapter Probation Records Before They Are Deleted or Relocated, Mississippi’s Pure Comparative-Negligence Rule the Fraternity Already Invoked to Blame the Pledge and the Punitive-Damages Standard for Gross Negligence, the Statute of Limitations Is Running, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Oxford, Mississippi Fraternity Hazing: What Happened at Ole Miss and What It Means for Your Family If your son came home from a fraternity event with chemical burns in his throat — or if you are reading this because a young man you love was blindfolded, lined against a wall, and had bleach sprayed into his mouth during a ritual someone called “tradition” — you are in the right place. What happened to that student at the Pi Kappa Alpha house on the night of October 11, 2020 was not an accident, not a prank, and not something he brought on himself. It was a crime. Mississippi law says so. And the law gives your family a door to hold every person and every institution that let it happen accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle fraternity and sorority hazing injury cases, and we currently litigate a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity — a case that shares the same architecture as what happened at Ole Miss: a national fraternity, a local chapter, young men entrusted with power over pledges, and a catastrophic injury that did not have to happen. We are writing this page as the senior trial attorneys who build these cases — to tell you what the law actually says, what the medicine actually means, what the fraternity’s lawyers are already doing to minimize what happened, and what you need to do before the evidence disappears. This page is legal…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Alcohol-Poisoning Brain Injury Attorneys — Danny Santulli’s Catastrophic Hypoxic Brain Damage at the University of Missouri Fiji House in Columbia, a National Fraternity That Defied Its Own Alcohol Sanction to Stage Pledge Dad Reveal Night, Attorney911 Pursues the National Organization, the Chapter and Every Member Who Failed to Intervene, 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 Secure Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Disciplinary Records Before the 30-Day Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Uncapped Non-Economic Damages for Conscious Disregard of a Pledge’s Safety, the Closed House Sits Empty and Witnesses Scatter While the Statute of Limitations Runs — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia, Missouri Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit: What Happened at Fiji — and What the Law Says About Your Rights The phone call that changes everything in a hazing case usually comes at night. A voice on the other end says your son is at the hospital. Or worse — that he has been medevaced to a trauma center hours away, and the words “brain injury” are in the first sentence. In Columbia, where the University of Missouri is the town and Greek life is woven into its social fabric, that call has come too many times. What happened at the Phi Gamma Delta house on October 20 was not an accident. It was a chain of decisions — each one made by someone who could have stopped it and didn’t. Here is the first thing you need to know: Missouri has a law against hazing. It is a criminal statute, and it exists because the legislature understood that the people inside a fraternity — the ones who planned the event, bought the alcohol, and watched a pledge drink until his brain was starved of oxygen — would not police themselves. That law is also the foundation of a civil case. When a fraternity defies its own national organization’s sanction against alcohol, arranges a hazing event anyway, and a young man ends up unable to speak, walk, or respond to his own family, the law does not call that a tragedy. It calls it negligence — and in Missouri, it can call…

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Jul 22, 2026

Timothy Piazza, 19, Dead After a Gauntlet Drinking Ritual at the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Penn State — Pennsylvania Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the National Fraternity Organization, Its Local Chapter and the House Corporation Behind Forced-Alcohol Pledging That Left a Teen Unconscious on a Couch for Hours While Members Did Nothing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Fraternity Deaths, We Secure the Surveillance Footage, National Fraternity Risk-Management Files and Toxicology Reports Before They Are Overwritten or Sanitized, the State’s Anti-Hazing Statute and 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

Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: Who Pays, What the Law Allows, and Why the Evidence Clock Starts the Day You Call If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your child came home from a fraternity event in an ambulance — or did not come home at all — you are in the worst moment a parent can be in. You are not reading this page casually. You are reading it because something happened at a fraternity house in Pennsylvania that should never have happened, and you need to know what the law actually allows you to do about it. We are going to tell you everything we know about how these cases are built, who is responsible, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what the other side is already doing to make sure you never get the full story. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Pennsylvania, and we are currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit. That case is in Texas, not Pennsylvania — but the architecture of a hazing wrongful death case is the same no matter where the fraternity house sits: a national organization that knew about hazing across its chapters and failed to stop it, a local chapter that planned and ran the ritual, individual members who watched a young person deteriorate and did nothing, and a university that may have had policies on paper that it never…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University That Knew, 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, We Secure Fraternity Communications, University Hazing Records and Criminal Convictions Before Witnesses Graduate and Messages Vanish, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and Collin’s Law, Acute Alcohol Poisoning and Coercive Pledging Dynamics That Refute the Voluntary-Consumption 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

Bowling Green Fraternity Hazing Death: How Ohio Law Holds Universities and Fraternities Accountable If you are reading this page, you may be sitting at a kitchen table in Bowling Green, or in Delaware, Ohio, or somewhere along the I-75 corridor between Toledo and home, trying to understand how a fraternity initiation event ended with your child hospitalized or gone. You may have just learned that a tradition of new members being expected to consume a full bottle of alcohol at a fraternity event — a tradition the university’s own investigation later documented — led to acute alcohol poisoning, three days on life support, and a death that did not have to happen. Here is the first thing you need to know, and it is the thing the fraternity and the university are counting on you not understanding: the evidence that proves what really happened inside that house is dying faster than the legal deadline to file a claim. Ohio gives you two years from the date of death to bring a wrongful death action. But the text messages between fraternity members, the group chats where the event was organized, the witness accounts from pledges who were there — students graduate, accounts get deleted, phones get lost, and memories fade. The preservation letter that freezes those records has to go out before the proof disappears, not after. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle hazing wrongful death cases. We currently litigate a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha’s National Organization and the University’s Negligent Supervision of Greek-Life Hazing, 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 Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Deaths, We Preserve Fraternity Communications, University Conduct Board Files, and Toxicology Evidence Before Witnesses Graduate and Records Are Purged, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act and Collin’s Law Anti-Hazing Framework, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night That Should Never Have Happened: Bowling Green’s Hazing Death and What It Means for Every Family If you are reading this page, you are probably in one of two places. Either you have lost someone to a hazing incident at a college or university in Ohio, and you are trying to understand whether what happened to your child was a tragedy or a crime — or both. Or you are a parent whose child survived a hazing event and you are only now learning how close you came to the phone call the Foltz family received in March of 2021. Either way, you are here because something broke, and you need to know whether the people who let it break can be held accountable. They can. We are going to tell you exactly how, and exactly what the law in Ohio gives your family the power to do about it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases in Ohio and across the country, and we currently lead active hazing litigation against a university and a national fraternity. We know what these cases look like from the inside because we are living one right now. What happened at Bowling Green State University is not an isolated event. It is part of a pattern that has killed at least one college student every year in this country for over sixty years. The only question that matters…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio: A 20-Year-Old BGSU Pledge Forced to Drink a Liter of Bourbon at a Pi Kappa Alpha Ritual, Three Days in a Coma, Fatal Alcohol Poisoning — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Insurer Behind These Initiation Rituals, 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 Secure the Fraternity Communications, National Risk-Management Files and Criminal Conviction Records Before They Are Purged, Ohio’s Collin’s Law and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When They Said “We’ll Take Care of Him” — The Night That Killed Your Son at Bowling Green Your child went to college to learn. He joined a fraternity to belong. He was told to drink a liter of bourbon, and he was told that the young men handing it to him would take care of him. Then they watched him lose consciousness, and they did nothing that mattered in time to save his life. He spent nearly three days in a coma on a ventilator while you stood at his bedside, and on March 7, 2021, he died from alcohol poisoning in a hospital in Ohio — killed by a ritual that has a name, that has a law against it, and that has been killing college students for generations. We need you to hear this first: your son’s death was not his fault. He was a 20-year-old sophomore who wanted what every 20-year-old wants — community, belonging, a place in the world. The system that killed him exploited that desire, and the law in Ohio now says exactly that. What happened to your child in Bowling Green was not an accident, not a prank gone wrong, not “kids being kids.” It was hazing. It was a crime. Eight of the young men who participated were convicted of it. And the civil law gives your family a separate, powerful path to hold every layer of that system accountable — the local chapter that ran the ritual, the national fraternity…

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