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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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Jul 3, 2026

LSU Hazing Death & Wrongful Death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Attorney911 Fights for Families Destroyed by Fraternity Hazing — Max Gruver Died September 14, 2017 After a Forced-Drinking Bible Study Ritual at Phi Delta Theta’s Louisiana Beta Chapter — His 0.495 BAC Was Not Partying but Poisoning, We Pursue the National Fraternity for Negligent Supervision of Its Local Chapter, We Preserve the GroupMe and SMS Logs Before They Are Wiped, the Fraternity’s National Records Before the Document-Retention Purge, and Subpoena the Toxicology and Autopsy Reports, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Litigation, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Aggregate Insurance Layers Are Structured and How the Claims Machine Will Try to Blame the Victim for Drinking, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Law and the Max Gruver Act Forged From His 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

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Death Lawyer — When the Promise of Brotherhood Becomes the Cause of Death You are reading this at an hour when no family should be awake. Your son went to LSU to get an education, and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to describe. Or maybe he is still alive but broken — hospitalized, traumatized, changed — and you are sitting in a waiting room trying to understand how an organization that called itself a brotherhood left him for dead. We are going to tell you, in plain language, exactly what the law allows, who can be held accountable, how the evidence works, how fast it disappears, and what a case like this is worth — because the first thing you need, right now, is the truth about what is possible. A 19-year-old freshman pledge at the Louisiana Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta at Louisiana State University died on September 14, 2017, after a forced-drinking ritual the chapter called “Bible Study.” Pledges were required to consume high-proof alcohol as punishment for incorrectly answering questions about the fraternity. His blood-alcohol content was 0.495 percent — a number a toxicologist does not describe with the word “partying.” That number is described with the word “poisoning.” He died of aspiration of vomit and acute alcohol poisoning. He was a 19-year-old kid who wanted to belong to something, and the something he joined killed him. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm,…

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Jul 3, 2026

LSU Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Max Gruver, an 18-Year-Old Freshman, Died at 0.495% BAC from Forced 190-Proof Alcohol in a Bible Study Hazing Ritual at the Phi Delta Theta House in Baton Rouge, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter, the Housing Corporation and the Insurers Behind Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Blames the Pledge, We Preserve GroupMe Messages and House Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, the Max Gruver Act Made Hazing a Felony in Louisiana and the Short Prescriptive Period for Wrongful-Death Claims Is Running, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Death Lawsuits: When a Pledge Doesn’t Come Home You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to be awake. Your son went off to college — to LSU, to a campus in Baton Rouge, to the flagship university that was supposed to be the beginning of everything — and he did not come home. Or he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive. The phone call came. The autopsy came. The words “blood alcohol content” and “hazing” came, and now you are sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning trying to understand how an 18-year-old who walked into a fraternity house on a September night died there before morning. We are the trial attorneys who take these cases, and this page is the first thing that should make sense after that call. Everything here is the truth about what Louisiana law allows your family to do — and what the fraternity, its insurance company, and its lawyers are already doing to make sure you cannot do it. National Hazing Prevention Week arrives every September. Organizations put out statements. They partner with foundations named after dead children. They publish articles about zero tolerance. But the fraternity that publishes those words is the same fraternity whose chapter ritual killed a pledge in Baton Rouge — and the gap between what those organizations say and what they allowed to happen inside their own house is exactly where your…

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Jul 3, 2026

Sawyer Updike Fraternity-Hazing Wrongful Death in Austin, Texas — Attorney911 Holds Sigma Chi International, the Alpha Nu House Corporation and Chapter Officers Behind Months of Whipping, Fishhook Spearing, Cigarette Burns, Staple-Gun Piercing and Forced Cocaine and Psilocybin That Drove a UT Freshman to Suicide, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity-Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Institutional-Liability Cases, We Preserve the GroupMe Messages, Recorded Hazing Footage and Toxicology Evidence Before Members Destroy It, Texas Law Strips the Consent Defense From Hazing Cases and Authorizes Wrongful-Death and Survival Recovery for the Physical Pain and Psychological Terror Preceding 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

Austin, Texas Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: What the Law Says, What the Evidence Shows, and How to Hold Greek Organizations Accountable If you are reading this page, you are probably a parent. You may be a parent who has lost a child, or you may be a parent who just heard about what happened at a fraternity in Austin and felt your stomach drop because your own son or daughter is pledging right now. Either way, you are here at a hard hour, and the first thing we want you to know is this: in Texas, the law does not let a fraternity hide behind the argument that your child “chose” to be hazed. The Texas Hazing Act expressly says that consent is not a defense. That single sentence — written into the Texas Education Code — is the foundation of everything that follows on this page, and it is the first protection we can give you before you have to make a single decision. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27+ years in Texas courtrooms, including federal court, and he is lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit filed in Harris County — a case that seeks more than $10 million from a university fraternity. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He knows West Campus. He knows the Greek system from the inside of a campus he attended, not from a website. And beside him is…

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Jul 3, 2026

Wrongful Death Lawsuit After UT Austin Freshman Sawyer Lee Updike, 18, Died by Suicide January 16, 2024 Following Months of Hazing at the Sigma Chi Alpha Nu Chapter in Austin, Texas — Fishhook Piercings, Cigarette Burns, Staple-Gun Wounds, Whipping and Coerced Cocaine Use at the Fraternity House — Attorney911 Holds Sigma Chi International, the Alpha Nu Chapter and the Members Behind the Torture Accountable, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent (8.2), the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, We Preserve Cell-Phone Messages, Group Chats and Security Footage on a 7-to-30-Day Overwrite Loop Before They Vanish, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases Under Texas Anti-Hazing Law and the Wrongful-Death Act — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Austin, Texas Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Legal Rights After a Son Is Tortured, Drugged, and Lost You are reading this because someone you love was failed by people who should have protected him — and because the institution that was supposed to be his gateway to adulthood became the thing that killed him. We are sorry you are here. We are also ready. What happened on the University of Texas campus in Austin — the months of physical torture, the fishhook through the leg, the cigarette burns, the staple gun, the coerced cocaine use, the threats against his girlfriend, and the final night where fraternity members gave an 18-year-old cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms and sent him back out into a parking lot where he took his own life — was not a tragedy that arrived without warning. It was a campaign. And under Texas law, every person and entity that ran that campaign can be held answerable for what it produced. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Texas cases, and right now we are litigating a hazing wrongful death lawsuit against a fraternity at a Texas university — a case that has taught us exactly how these organizations operate, how they hide, and how to break the code of silence that protects the people who did this. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is a UT Austin graduate — he walked the same campus your son walked. He has spent 27…

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