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Jul 2, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Death at Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha and the National Fraternity Network Behind Coerced Binge-Drinking Rituals That Left a BGSU Pledge at .35 BAC, 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 National Fraternity Claims Teams Value and Deny These Cases, We Move to Preserve GroupMe and Snapchat Communications Before They Auto-Wipe and Security Footage of the Drop-Off Before the Overwrite, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Law (Collin’s Law) and the State’s 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

What Happened at Bowling Green Was Not an Accident — It Was a System That Killed If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone — or lying in a hospital bed — and a fraternity is the reason. You may have gotten the call at 2 a.m. A roommate found your child unresponsive. A hospital social worker told you to come. You drove through the dark not knowing if you were driving toward a recovery or a funeral. And somewhere in the hours that followed, you started hearing words like “hazing” and “blood alcohol level” and “he was dropped off at his apartment” — and none of it made sense, because your child went to college to learn, not to be poisoned by people who called themselves his brothers. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes fraternity hazing and wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, is right now the lead counsel in an active ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university — we are currently litigating that case, and we understand this fight from the inside out. What happened to your family is not unique in the way the fraternity will try to tell you it was — a one-time mistake, a rogue chapter, an isolated incident. It is part of a pattern that has killed students at universities across this country for decades, and the system that produced it is designed to protect itself, not your child.…

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Jul 2, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of Timothy Piazza at Penn State in State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania: Attorney911 Pursues Beta Theta Pi and the National Fraternity Liability Carriers Behind Forced-Consumption Rituals Where 18 Drinks in Under Two Hours Turned a Pledge Initiation Fatal, 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 Hazing Claims, We Secure the Security Footage, Group Chats and Pledge-Event Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, the Firm Leads the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case and Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Pennsylvania’s Anti-Hazing Law Passed in Timothy Piazza’s Name and the State’s Wrongful-Death Doctrine — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Fraternity Hazing Turns Fatal in State College — and What Your Family Can Still Do About It You sent your son to Penn State. You got the call no parent is built to receive. Now you are sitting at a kitchen table in Centre County, or wherever grief has put you, reading that a federal judge has said the lawsuit is “approaching trial” — almost ten years after a fraternity initiation killed your child. The judge wants a list of who is left. Some defendants have already settled and paid. Others are still fighting. And you are wondering whether the legal system is ever going to answer the one question that matters: why was your son left to die on the floor of a fraternity house while people who called him their brother walked past him? We are writing this for you. Not for the casual reader, not for the search engine. For the parent or the sibling who is living inside the worst thing that has ever happened to their family and trying to understand whether the law has anything left to give them. It does. The fact that a federal judge has pushed this case toward trial — after a decade of criminal proceedings, delays, and partial settlements — means the system has not finished its work. And neither have we. Here is what we know, and what we want you to know: a fraternity hazing death is not an accident. It is a cascade of choices…

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Jul 2, 2026

School Hazing & Institutional Negligence at Ursuline High School in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Hold the Catholic Diocese and School Administration Accountable When Football-Program Hazing, Title IX Harassment, and a Planned Cafeteria Fight Leave Students Concussed and Traumatized, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Religious-Organization Carriers Value and Deny These Claims, We Preserve the Internal Investigative Reports and Coaches’ Digital Communications Before They Disappear, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Cause of Action and Title IX Deliberate-Indifference Standard, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing & Institutional Liability Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Including $5M+ in TBI Settlements — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown Ursuline High School Hazing Lawsuit: What Parents Need to Know About School Negligence, Title IX, and Your Child’s Rights If your child was hazed, harassed, or hurt at a school that was supposed to protect them, you are living in a specific kind of hell. The school you trusted with your child — a place that carried a religious name and a community reputation — became the place where adults looked the other way while kids were hurt. And now you are reading that some families have settled, and you are wondering what that means for your family, whether it is too late, and whether anyone will ever be held accountable for what happened to your child. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes cases involving school hazing, institutional negligence, and catastrophic injury. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now our firm is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a fraternity — the kind of case that teaches a firm exactly how hazing litigation works, how institutions circle the wagons, and how to prove what adults knew and when they knew it. Lupe Peña spent years on the other side, inside a national insurance-defense firm, learning the exact playbook adjusters and their lawyers use to minimize and deny claims exactly like yours. He now uses that knowledge for families, in English or in Spanish. Here is what…

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Jul 2, 2026

Bucknell Fraternity Social-Host Negligence & Underage-Drinking Injury Attorneys in Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania: Attorney911 Holds Fraternal Organizations and Those Who Furnish Alcohol to Minors Accountable for the Concussions, Fractured Nose and Neurological Surgery Ella Cheatham Suffered After Two Alcohol-Facilitated Incidents on St. Catherine Street, We Pursue Chi Phi Fraternity and Every Party Who Furnished Alcohol to the Underage Drinker, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, TBI ($5M+ Recovered), We Preserve Party Evidence, Witness Statements and Fraternity-House Security Footage Before the Overwrite — Pennsylvania’s Social-Host Liability Doctrine for Furnishing Alcohol to Underage Persons, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happens When a Fraternity Furnishes Alcohol to a Minor and Someone Gets Hurt — Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania You are reading this at a kitchen table or a dorm room, and the question that brought you here is not abstract. Someone you love was hurt — a fractured nose, a concussion, a head slammed against a sidewalk — and the thread that runs through all of it is alcohol that should never have been in a young person’s hands. A fraternity party. Adults who bought the drinks. A boyfriend who was intoxicated and became dangerous. And now there are medical bills, neurological symptoms that will not go away, and a surgery nobody planned for. You want to know who is responsible, whether the law covers this, and whether it is too late. We are going to tell you everything — the law, the medicine, the money, the evidence clock, and the playbook the other side is already running against you. This is what we do. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911, any hour, and the consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. The Core Questions, Answered Directly Can a fraternity be sued for letting underage people drink on its property? Yes. When a fraternity opens its house for a party, makes alcohol available to people under twenty-one, and fails to supervise what happens on its premises, the fraternity and potentially its national organization face civil liability under Pennsylvania negligence and premises-liability law. The complaint filed…

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Jul 2, 2026

NAU Fraternity Pledge Hazing Death & Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the Indicted Member, the Local Chapter and the National Fraternity Organization Behind a Flagstaff Pledge’s Death, 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 Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Deny Coverage for Intentional Acts, We Preserve the Group-Chat Records, Toxicology Reports and Disciplinary History Before They Disappear, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Anti-Hazing Doctrine Where Consent Is Not a Defense to a Pledge’s 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

The Indictment Changed Everything: Your Family’s Civil Case After an NAU Fraternity Hazing Death You are reading this because someone you raised — someone you sent to Flagstaff to get an education — did not come home. A grand jury in Coconino County has now indicted a member of a Northern Arizona University fraternity, and that single word, indicted, tells you something the university and the fraternity’s national office may not say out loud: what happened to your child was not an accident, and it was not a rogue incident. A prosecutor looked at the evidence and concluded that a crime occurred. We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and right now, in this moment, we want you to know three things before anything else. First: what happened to your child was not their fault, no matter what the fraternity’s lawyers will eventually argue about “choice” and “consent.” A pledge standing in a room full of older men who control whether he gets accepted is not making a free decision about how much alcohol to consume. The law in Arizona knows this, and we will explain exactly how. Second: the criminal indictment is the single most powerful thing that has happened for your civil case, because it transforms the fraternity’s conduct from “negligence” into something a grand jury already found probably criminal — and that opens the door to punitive damages. Third: the evidence that proves what really happened that night is dying…

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Jul 2, 2026

University of Kansas ATO Gamma Mu Chapter Hazing Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity Hazing Case to Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Housing Corporation Behind Six Consecutive Nights of ‘Harm to Persons’ Inside the Chapter House Where Their Own Investigator Found No Guardrails Existed, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity CGL Carrier Values and Denies Hazing Claims, We Move to Preserve the Unredacted Student Conduct Letters, the Facility Surveillance Footage and the Snapchat Communications Before Auto-Delete and Overwrite Cycles Erase Them, Kansas Anti-Hazing Doctrine and the University’s Suspension Findings as Evidence, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What KU’s Five-Year Suspension of Alpha Tau Omega Means for Your Civil Case If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was inside the Alpha Tau Omega house at 1537 Tennessee Street in Lawrence — or you are a parent who just found out what happened there over six consecutive nights in October 2024. You already know the university acted. What you may not know is that the university’s suspension is not the end of the story. It is the beginning of yours. The University of Kansas sanctioned ATO’s Gamma Mu chapter on March 20, removing it as a recognized organization until the spring of 2031. The suspension documents cite hazing, harm to persons, and registered organization policy violations. The chapter itself accepted the findings. A national investigator confirmed the chapter lacked appropriate guardrails to prevent hazing. Two members were expelled. The suspension is the university saying, in writing, that these things happened. What the university cannot do is compensate you. The university’s power runs to the organization — it can shut the chapter down, expel members, and revoke affiliation. It cannot pay your medical bills. It cannot cover the therapy you need. It cannot give back the semester you lost, or the sleep that never comes, or the panic that hits when a door closes too loud. That is what civil law is for. And the same findings the university just made — hazing, harm to persons, reckless and intentional endangerment — are the factual foundation…

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Jul 2, 2026

WKU Kappa Sigma Hazing Lawsuit & Fraternity Injury Attorneys in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky: Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity, the Chapter Officers and the Housing Corporation Behind the Pledging-Cycle Hazing That Cost the Chapter Its Five-Year University Recognition, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing / Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Disciplinary Committee Findings, GroupMe Logs and Pledge Records Before They Are Deleted, Kentucky’s Pure Comparative-Fault Rule Means the Defense Cannot Bar Your Claim by Saying You Volunteered, Kentucky’s One-Year Filing Window from the Fall 2025 Semester Is Already Running, 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 WKU Kappa Sigma Hazing Lawsuit: Your Rights After the Five-Year Ban If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was caught in what happened at the Western Kentucky University chapter of Kappa Sigma. You may be a parent who got a phone call at midnight. You may be a student who is still trying to make sense of what was done to you in the name of “brotherhood.” You may be someone who watched it happen and has not decided whether to come forward yet. This page is written for all of you — and it is written to tell you the truth about what the law actually says, what the university’s decision does and does not mean, and what your rights are under Kentucky law. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes hazing cases, and our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity seeking more than $10 million in damages. We know these cases from the inside. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911. The consultation is free, and we do not get paid unless we win your case. Here is the first thing you need to know, and it is the thing most families do not learn until it is too late: the university’s ban and your right to sue are two completely different things. WKU did something significant — it stripped Kappa Sigma of its recognition…

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Jul 2, 2026

WKU Kappa Sigma Hazing Lawsuit Attorneys in Bowling Green, Warren County, KY — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity and Its Chartered Chapter After WKU’s 5-Year Revocation Confirmed Hazing Violations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Fraternity Hazing Case, We Break the Pledge-Period Wall of Silence, Subpoena the Disciplinary Committee File and Preserve Group Chats Before Deletion, Kentucky’s Anti-Hazing Law and the State’s Short Personal-Injury Filing Window Demand Immediate Action, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How National Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny Hazing Claims, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Five-Year Ban: WKU Confirmed Hazing — But That Is Not Your Remedy Western Kentucky University just did something real: it stripped Kappa Sigma of its university recognition for five years after a disciplinary committee confirmed hazing violations. The chapter cannot operate on campus, recruit new members, host events, or call itself an WKU organization through 2031. If your child was a pledge — if your child was the one this happened to — you already knew what the university just confirmed. What you may not know is that the university’s ban, while important, is not your remedy. The remedy for what was done to your child is a civil claim. And in Kentucky, that claim runs on the fastest clock of any state in this country. We are a trial firm that takes hazing cases. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, is currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. We know how these cases are built because we are building one right now. And the first thing we need you to understand — before anything else — is that Kentucky’s deadline to file is one year. Not two years like Texas. Not three years like most of the country. One year. If the hazing happened in the fall semester when the university says it received the report, that clock may already be more than halfway spent. The university emphasized that it has a zero-tolerance policy toward hazing and will…

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Jul 2, 2026

KU’s Five-Year Suspension of Alpha Tau Omega After Hazing Investigation — Hazing-National Fraternity Injury & Institutional-Liability Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring 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 University Behind the Oversight Failure When Pledge-Period Hazing, Forced Alcohol Consumption and Physical Abuse Cause Serious Injury, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Secure the University Investigation Files, Fraternity Communications and Witness Statements Before They Disappear, Anti-Hazing Law and the Fraternal Organization’s Duty of Care, 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 Fraternity Investigation Becomes Your Family’s Emergency You are reading this page because something happened to someone you love inside a fraternity — at the University of Kansas, inside Alpha Tau Omega, or somewhere just like it. Maybe your son came home with bruises he could not explain. Maybe he was rushed to the hospital with alcohol poisoning and a blood alcohol level that should have killed him. Maybe he is afraid to tell you what they made him do. Maybe the worst has already happened and you are reading this from a hospital waiting room or a funeral home. We are Attorney911, and we build hazing cases. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston. That case is filed in Harris County, Texas, and it is live right now. We know what hazing does to a young person. We know how fraternities defend themselves. We know where the evidence hides and how fast it disappears. A five-year suspension is the university saying, on the record, that something went wrong inside that chapter. That is the starting point — not the ending point. A suspension is an administrative finding, not a court judgment, and the fraternity’s lawyers will work to distance the national organization, the local chapter, and every individual member from what happened. Your family’s case is a separate fight, and it has its own clock. What the KU Suspension Means —…

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Jul 2, 2026

UGA Kappa Sigma Hazing Suspension: Fraternity Injury Lawsuits in Athens, Georgia — Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity and the Beta-Lambda Chapter Behind the Suspension Through 2028 for the Coerced Alcohol, Physical Battery and Sleep Deprivation the University’s Conduct Process Already Found, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the National’s Carrier Hides Behind the Hazing Exclusion and the Rogue-Chapter Defense, We Secure the UGA Investigative Files, GroupMe Text Logs and House Surveillance Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Georgia’s Anti-Hazing Law Supports Punitive Damages for Willful Misconduct, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

UGA Kappa Sigma Hazing Suspension — Your Legal Rights in Athens, Georgia If you are reading this at 2 a.m., you already know what happened. Maybe you lived through it — the nights that were supposed to be about brotherhood and turned into something else. Maybe you are the parent who got the phone call, or didn’t get one and found out later, and now you are looking at a university press release about a suspension that uses clean administrative language for something that felt nothing like a clean administrative event. The University of Georgia suspended the Beta-Lambda chapter of Kappa Sigma through January 1, 2028, for hazing-related violations of the student code of conduct. That sentence is the university’s. What happened inside it is yours. And what you do next is the difference between an institution that moves on and an institution that answers for what it put people through. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes Georgia hazing cases, and we are writing this page because the people who need to read it are the ones the university’s announcement did not name. The suspension tells you the university found something. It does not tell you what to do with the harm it caused. That is what this page is for — every right you have under Georgia law, every entity that can be held accountable, every piece of evidence that is disappearing right now while you decide whether to act, and the exact playbook the…

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