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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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Jul 3, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Death — Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Wrongful-Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha’s National Organization and Its BGSU Chapter for the Forced-Alcohol Initiation Ritual That Killed a Sophomore, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, With an Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit on the Docket, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Greek Risk-Retention Carriers Deploy Hazing Exclusions to Deny Claims, We Move to Preserve GroupMe Messages, Toxicology Reports and University Disciplinary Files Before Students Scatter and the Delete Cycle Hits, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Anti-Hazing Law Ohio Passed After This Death, 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 Death: The BGSU Pi Kappa Alpha Case and What It Means for Every Family If you are reading this page, you already know the worst thing a parent can learn. A phone call from a hospital in Bowling Green. A notification from a university that conduct violations have been issued. A fraternity’s press release expressing heartbreak while its lawyers circle the wagons. You are in the first hours or weeks of a grief that will not end, and you are surrounded by institutions that are already protecting themselves instead of telling you the truth. We are writing this page to give you what those institutions will not: a straight, complete explanation of what happened under Ohio law, who can be held accountable, what the evidence looks like before it disappears, and what a real case against a national fraternity is actually built from. Everything here is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information we wish someone had given the families before us, written the way the senior trial attorney on this team would say it across a kitchen table in Wood County. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university — a case that is being fought right now, not settled…

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Jul 3, 2026

Stone Foltz Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio: Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha and the University Behind the Forced-Consumption Hazing Ritual That Killed a Pledge with a Lethal Bottle of Hard Liquor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How National Fraternity Insurers Invoke Hazing Exclusions to Deny Coverage, We Secure the GroupMe Communications, Pledge Ritual Documents and University Disciplinary Records Before They Disappear, Clery Act Hazing-Report Mandates, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Anti-Hazing Reporting Duty, 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 Death: What the Law Holds Accountable When a Pledge Doesn’t Come Home If you are reading this page, you already know the worst thing a parent can learn about their college-aged child. Maybe a hospital called at 2 a.m. Maybe a dean showed up at your door. Maybe your son or daughter is still in intensive care and you are sitting in a waiting room searching for answers on a phone you can barely see through your own tears. We are writing to you — the parent, the spouse, the sibling, the roommate who saw what happened — because what happened was not an accident. It was a ritual. And the law in Ohio has a name for what killed your family member, and it has a path to hold the institutions that allowed it to account for what they did. A 20-year-old student at Bowling Green State University died in March 2021 after a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity event in which pledges were told to drink an entire bottle of high-proof liquor — a practice known on campus as “bottling.” He was found unconscious. He was taken to a hospital. He died days later from acute alcohol poisoning. The family reached a settlement with BGSU for nearly $3 million — the largest payout by a public university in a hazing case in Ohio’s history — and a $1 million settlement with the fraternity itself, with total settlements exceeding $10 million including individual fraternity members.…

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Jul 3, 2026

Missouri Fraternity Hazing & Catastrophic Brain-Injury Attorneys: Danny Santulli Left Unable to See, Walk or Communicate After Forced Alcohol Consumption at the Phi Gamma Delta House in Columbia — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization, the Chapter House Corporation and Every Member Behind the Pledge-Week Coercion, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Group Chats, BAC Reports and Ritual Manuals Before Phones Are Replaced, Brain Injury ($5M+ Recovered), Missouri Anti-Hazing Law Holds Organizations Accountable for Coercive Traditions, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia, Missouri Fraternity Hazing: What Happened at FIJI — and What It Means for Every Family Facing the Same Fight If your child was hurt in a fraternity hazing event at the University of Missouri or any campus in Boone County, you are reading this at a hour when sleep stopped being possible. Your son was a freshman. He wanted to belong to something. He walked into a fraternity house on a fall night in October 2021 and never walked back out as the person he was. The people inside that house — men he thought would be his brothers — forced him to drink alcohol until his heart stopped. By the time anyone called for help, the damage was done. He cannot see. He cannot walk. He cannot communicate. That is not an accident. That is a crime, and it is also a civil wrong that Missouri law gives you the power to pursue. We are Attorney911. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now serves as lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi at the University of Houston. Lupe Peña, our associate attorney, 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 — before he came to our side of the table. He is fluent in Spanish and conducts full consultations without an interpreter. We…

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Jul 3, 2026

Max Gruver Wrongful Death at LSU — Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue Phi Delta Theta and Its Louisiana Beta Chapter Behind the Forced-Drinking Ritual That Killed a Freshman Pledge on September 14, 2017, We Preserve the Group Chats, Toxicology Reports and Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the State’s Wrongful-Death Doctrine and One-Year Prescription Clock, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — Your Family’s Rights After a Hazing Death at LSU or Any Louisiana Campus If you are reading this because your child died at a fraternity house in Louisiana, the first thing you need to know is this: Louisiana gives you one year to file a wrongful death claim. That clock started the day your child died, and it is one of the shortest deadlines in the country. The fraternity’s insurance company already knows about that clock — even if you are still making funeral arrangements. We are the trial team at Attorney911 that takes Louisiana hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he serves as lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours — and now sits on your side of the table. We work Louisiana cases with local counsel where required, and we do not get paid unless we win. This page is written for one person: the parent, the sibling, the family member who is searching at 2 a.m. for answers about what happened inside that fraternity house. Everything here is designed to protect you before the fraternity’s lawyers build their defense, before the evidence disappears, and before the one-year clock runs out. Call…

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