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Jul 21, 2026

Hazing-National: Adam Oakes’ Fraternity Hazing Death & Wrongful-Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organizations, Local Chapters and Universities Behind 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 & Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, the Alcohol-Fueled Pledging Rituals That Turn Fatal, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Deny Coverage by Calling Hazing Unauthorized, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Pledging Materials and Prior-Complaint Records Before They Are Deleted, Wrongful-Death and Anti-Hazing Liability, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hazing Death Lawsuits: When a Fraternity Pledge Dies — Fraternity Liability, University Accountability, and the Evidence Clock You are reading this because someone’s child is gone. Maybe it was your child. Maybe it was your brother, your grandson, your friend’s son. Maybe you watched a documentary about what happened and you need to understand how the law answers a death that should never have occurred. A young man went to college, joined a fraternity, and never came home. A film about his death is premiering at one of the most prestigious film festivals in the country — and that documentary means the story is not going away. It means the public is about to learn what happened behind fraternity walls that a family has already known in grief. If you are a parent, a sibling, or a friend sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand what the law can do after a hazing death, we are going to tell you everything — who can be held accountable, how the evidence disappears, what the fight looks like, and what your family’s rights actually are. This page is legal information, not legal advice. But it is written by trial lawyers who have stood in the courtroom on these cases, and it is written for you. The Documentary, the Death, and What Public Attention Means for Accountability A documentary about a hazing death premiering at a major film festival matters for more than one reason. It means the evidence…

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Jul 21, 2026

Savanna Jones, 18, Died After a Hazing Ritual in a Henderson Hall Dorm Room at Wilberforce University Required Her to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor While Resident Assistants Watched — Instead of Seeking Medical Help They Left Her Unconscious After She Vomited, the University’s Dry-Campus Policy Unenforced — Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the University and Its Housing Staff Under Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Law in Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Campus Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Text Messages, the Circulated Photo, Dorm Access Logs and Toxicology Before the Evidence Window Closes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hazing Wrongful Death in Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio — What Ohio Law Lets Your Family Do Your daughter texted her friends that she was scared. She went anyway, because that is what an 18-year-old does when she wants to belong. The people who were supposed to watch over her — the resident assistants, the residence life staff, the campus safety officers at Wilberforce University — were either in the room or should have known what was happening inside it. They watched her drink an entire bottle of liquor as the price of admission to a social club. They watched her vomit. They watched her lose the ability to stand. A photograph of her unconscious on a bed circulated at 10:30 at night. And instead of calling 911, instead of driving her the twenty-five minutes to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, they carried her back to her dorm room and left her there. She died early the next morning. That is what happened. The question now is what Ohio law lets your family do about it. The answer is more than most people realize — and the university and its insurers already know it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases arising from hazing, and we are currently litigating a $10 million hazing wrongful death lawsuit that shares painful parallels with what happened at Wilberforce. We are writing this page so that a family in Greene County, Ohio — sitting at a kitchen table…

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Jul 21, 2026

Train Derailment & FELA Wrongful Death in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: A Union Pacific Freight Train Struck a Tractor-Trailer Stuck on the Oak Street Grade Crossing, Killing Two Railroad Workers and Injuring Three After the Derailed Train Hit the Chamber of Commerce Building — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Sunset Corridor, We Pursue Union Pacific Under FELA’s Railroad-Negligence Standard and the Trucking Company Behind the Stuck Trailer, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Event Recorder, the Grade Crossing Signal Records Under 49 CFR Part 234, and the Downtown Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment Kills Two Union Pacific Workers: FELA Claims, Evidence, and Legal Rights for Railroad Families If you are reading this page, someone you love may be one of the two Union Pacific railroad workers who did not come home from the Sunset Corridor on December 16, 2024. Or you may be one of the three people injured when the train left the tracks in downtown Pecos and struck the Chamber of Commerce building. Either way, you are in the first hours and days of something that will not get easier on its own — and there is one thing you need to hear before anything else: the law that governs what happened to your family is not the law that governs most workplace deaths. It is better. It is a federal statute called FELA, and it gives railroad workers and their families rights that ordinary workers’ compensation never provides — the right to sue the railroad directly, the right to full damages including pain and suffering, and the right to have a jury in Reeves County decide what a railroad worker’s life was worth. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm — and this page is written to tell you exactly what those rights are, what evidence is already disappearing, and what the railroad’s claims representatives are trained to do in the hours after a crash like this one. None of what follows is legal advice for your specific case. It is legal information — the same…

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Jul 21, 2026

Construction-Zone Tractor-Trailer Fatality on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carrier Behind the 2005 Freightliner Columbia That Struck 24-Year-Old Worker Patrick Daniel Purdon in an Active Work Zone and Kept Driving Until a Construction Supervisor Stopped the Rig, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice on the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, the Driver Qualification File and Post-Accident Drug-Test Results on the FMCSA’s 32-Hour Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Exemplary Damages for Failure to Stop and Render Aid as Conscious Disregard, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County, Texas: A Construction Worker Killed on I-20 — and the Evidence That Is Already Dying If you are reading this page, someone you love was working on Interstate 20 in Reeves County on April 3, 2025, and a tractor-trailer came through that construction zone and did not stop. The driver has been charged with failure to stop and render aid in a collision involving death. The trucking company that put that driver and that 20-year-old Freightliner on the road has not been named in the news. And every hour that passes without a preservation letter on file is an hour the evidence is erasing itself — the engine data, the driver’s qualification file, the construction-zone configuration, the drug test that federal law required within 32 hours and that window has already closed. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what the law allows your family to pursue, what the trucking company is already doing to protect itself, and what evidence has to be frozen before it disappears. This is not a sales pitch. This is the education a family needs at 2 a.m. when the funeral is being planned and the adjuster has already called. The man who was killed was 24 years old. He was from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He was working in an active construction zone on I-20 near mile marker 28 in Reeves County — open, high-speed West Texas highway where the posted speed runs 75 to 80…

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Jul 21, 2026

Calvin ‘CJ’ Dickey Jr., 18, Dead From Exertional Rhabdomyolysis After Bucknell Football Hazing — Attorney911 Pursues Bucknell University and Its Athletic Program Behind 100 Up-Downs Ordered for a Freshman With Known Sickle Cell Trait, the NCAA SCT Conditioning Protocols That Were Ignored, We Preserve the Training-Room Footage and Compliance Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Pennsylvania’s Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law Creates Civil Remedies Alongside Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Statute of Limitations Is Running From the July 2024 Date of Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pennsylvania College Hazing Death: A Coach, a Known Condition, and a Freshman Who Never Came Home You sent your son to college on a football scholarship. He was eighteen years old, a thousand miles from home, in a small Pennsylvania town along the Susquehanna River where he was supposed to be learning pharmacy and playing the sport he loved. The next call you got was from a hospital. Then, two days later, the call no parent is built to receive. Now you are reading this at two in the morning because you just learned that the coach who ordered the workout that killed your child has been charged with crimes — and you want to know if there is anything left for your family to do. There is. But the window is closing faster than anyone has told you, and the people who owe you answers are counting on you not knowing that. We are Attorney911. We handle wrongful death cases and hazing death lawsuits, and right now we are going to tell you everything we know about what happened to a young man at a Pennsylvania university, what the law allows his family to do about it, and why the deadline to act may be measured in days. This page is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information a family in your position needs before another day passes. What Happened: A First Practice, a Coach Who Knew, and a Death Two Days Later On July…

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Jul 21, 2026

West Texas City Employee Shooting: Attorney911 Pursues the Property Owners, Management Companies and Security Contractors Behind Foreseeable Firearm Violence, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Shooting Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Crime-History Reports and Calls-for-Service Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Third-Party Claims Beyond Workers’ Comp When a Public Employee Is Shot on the Job, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Negligent-Security Doctrine and the 51-Percent Comparative-Fault Rule, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West Texas City Employee Shooting — Your Legal Rights After a Shooting on the Job in Texas If you are reading this page, someone you love may be the city employee who was shot in West Texas — or you may be that employee, reading from a hospital bed while the rest of the family stands in a hallway trying to understand what happens next. Either way, you are in a moment you never planned for, and the questions hitting you are not the kind that wait for business hours. Who is responsible? Does it matter that the victim worked for the city? Is there money to recover, and from whom? What should you do right now, and what should you refuse to do? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases across Texas, including the regions of West Texas where this shooting occurred. We are writing this page because the details of this specific incident are still developing, and the families who need answers right now should not have to wait for the full picture to emerge before understanding their rights. What follows is not speculation about what happened. It is the legal framework — the real, specific, Texas-law framework — that governs what happens after a city employee is shot on the job, and the practical steps that determine whether a case survives or quietly dies before anyone files it. If you need to talk to someone right now, at this hour,…

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Jul 21, 2026

Big Rig Accident in Midland County, TX — Two People Transported After an 80,000-Pound Commercial Tractor-Trailer Collision on a Permian Basin Highway: Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carriers and Oilfield Trucking Companies Behind These Crashes, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data and Paper Driver Logs Before the Overwrite, 49 CFR Hours-of-Service Compliance and the Federal Financial-Responsibility Minimum, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Trucking Cases, Texas Comparative-Negligence Rule, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Rig Accident in Midland County: What Happens When an 80,000-Pound Truck Changes Everything If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was on a Midland County road when a big rig crossed the line — literally. Two people were transported from the scene, which means emergency medical crews decided the injuries were serious enough that they could not be treated where they lay. You may be sitting in a hospital room right now, or you may be the family member who got the call. Either way, you are in the first hours or days of something that will take months to understand and years to resolve — and the decisions you make right now will shape whether the truth of what happened is preserved or disappears before anyone asks for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial trucking cases across Texas, and we built this page because a big rig accident in Midland County is not an ordinary car crash. It is a collision between a 4,000-pound passenger vehicle and a commercial tractor-trailer that can weigh 80,000 pounds loaded — a 20-to-1 weight disparity that turns a survivable impact into a catastrophe. The company that owns that truck already has a team of investigators, adjusters, and defense lawyers working to minimize what they owe you. You need equivalent representation, and you need it immediately, because the evidence that proves what happened is already disappearing. This page is written for anyone…

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Jul 21, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of Calvin ‘CJ’ Dickey Jr. at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Litigation to Bear on Colleges That Ignore NCAA Sickle-Cell Trait Protocols, We Pursue the University, Its Athletic Department and the Strength Coach Behind 100 Punishment Up-Downs That Triggered Exertional Rhabdomyolysis in a Freshman Known to Have Sickle-Cell Trait, We Move to Preserve the Training-Room Footage, SCT Testing Records and Internal Communications Before They Disappear, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Wrongful-Death Cases, Pennsylvania’s Antihazing Law and Wrongful-Death Act Provide for Survival Damages Capturing CJ’s Two Days of Conscious Suffering and Punitive Damages for Reckless Indifference to a Known Medical Condition, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Hazing Death: When a Coach Knew the Danger and Imposed It Anyway If you are reading this because your child came home from college practice in an ambulance — or never came home at all — we need you to hear something before anything else on this page: what happened was not an accident. It was not bad luck. It was not “just the risk of playing football.” When a coach is told a player has a medical condition that can kill him under extreme exertion, when that coach receives formal training on exactly what to avoid, and when that coach nevertheless orders 100 punishment exercises on the first day of practice — that is a choice. And when a university employs that coach for six years, gives him the training, and then leaves him alone in a training room with the very athletes the training was meant to protect, that is a system that failed in a way the law has a name for. In Pennsylvania, the name is hazing. And when hazing kills someone, the name for what follows is a wrongful death case. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death and hazing cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is currently lead counsel in an active ten-million-dollar-plus hazing lawsuit against a university and a fraternity. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where…

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Jul 21, 2026

Tanker Truck Rollover & Fire on the I-20 Corridor Near Midland: Attorney911 Pursues the Oilfield Carriers and Contractor Shells Behind Permian Basin Crude and Produced-Water Haulers, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Extract the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Telematics Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Burn and Crush Injuries, MCS-90 Financial-Responsibility Coverage and 49 CFR Tanker-Endorsement Compliance, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death, Texas Comparative Fault and the Stowers Duty That Creates Excess Exposure for the Insurer — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Big Spring Tanker Truck Rollover and Fire: What Happened on I-20 and What It Means for Your Family You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to be awake. A tanker truck rolled over and caught fire on the Interstate 20 corridor near Big Spring, and someone you love was either in that truck or in a vehicle caught in its path when it burned. The smell of the fuel and the sound of the flames are still in your head. You are sitting with hospital bills, or a death notification, or a phone full of missed calls from an insurance adjuster who sounds friendly and is not. What happened on that stretch of highway was not an accident in the sense that most people use that word. It was a failure — of a driver, a company, a piece of equipment, or all three — and the law has specific tools built for exactly this situation. Big Spring sits at the junction of Interstate 20 and US Highway 87 in Howard County, the heart of the southern Permian Basin. The oil and gas boom turned this corridor into one of the heaviest commercial-truck-traffic routes in the United States. Crude oil tankers, produced water haulers, natural gas liquids transporters, and frac sand trucks run these roads day and night, connecting drilling and production sites to processing facilities and pipelines. The combination of highway speeds, high-center-of-gravity tanker vehicles prone to rollover on curves and ramps, driver fatigue from…

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Jul 21, 2026

West Texas Bus-Tractor-Trailer Head-On Crash: 8 Cheerleaders Injured, 2 Critical — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Remote Freight Corridor Where Oil-Field Truck Traffic Meets Undivided Highways, We Pursue the Trucking Carrier and the Bus Operator for Common-Carrier Duty Owed to Student Passengers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Extract the ELD and ECM Black-Box Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, FMCSA Hours-of-Service and Driver-Qualification Compliance, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Truck-Crash ($2.5M+) Results, Texas Modified Comparative Negligence Governs Multi-Victim Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West Texas Bus-Tractor Trailer Crash: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and How to Protect Your Family If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was on that bus — or you are a parent sitting in a hospital room in West Texas, staring at a phone, trying to understand what comes next. Eight people were hurt. Two of them are fighting for their lives. The bus was carrying high school cheerleaders when it collided head-on with a tractor-trailer on a West Texas highway. That sentence contains your whole world right now, and it is not enough. You need to know what your rights are, what the insurance company is already doing, what evidence is already disappearing, and what the next 72 hours demand from you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial vehicle crash cases across Texas, and this page is the education we wish every family had in the first hours after a crash like this one. Everything here is free to read. The call is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. But the information on this page is the thing the trucking company’s insurance adjuster hopes you never find — because the day you understand your rights is the day their advantage starts to evaporate. The crash happened in December 2016, on a West Texas highway. The specific identities of the tractor-trailer carrier and the bus operator were not publicly reported in the initial coverage, which…

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