Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death, University Park, Pennsylvania: Timothy Piazza, 19, Penn State Sophomore, Dead After Beta Theta Pi Pledge Ritual Produced a 0.28–0.36 BAC, a Fall Down Basement Stairs, and a Delayed 911 Call While Security Cameras Recorded His Final Hours — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization, the Local Chapter, the House Corporation and the University’s Greek-Life Oversight, 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, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Security Footage, Fraternity Texts and University Oversight Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Pennsylvania Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Plus the Furnishing-to-Minors Prohibition That Undermines the Comparative-Fault Defense, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
University Park, Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Death: The Civil Liability Framework for Hazing Wrongful Death If you are reading this because your child was hospitalized after a fraternity event — or because someone you love did not come home from one — you are in a moment where the ground has dropped out from under you. The phone call, the hospital waiting room, the police officer at your door: those moments do not feel like the beginning of a legal process. They feel like the end of a life. But the law has something to say about what happened, and what it says matters. We are writing this page because a case in University Park, Pennsylvania — the 2017 hazing death of 19-year-old Penn State sophomore Timothy Piazza at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity — just reached the end of its criminal proceedings. Two former fraternity leaders, the chapter president and vice president, were sentenced to two to four months in prison with work release, three years of probation, and community service. They had pleaded guilty to 14 counts of hazing and one count of reckless endangerment. They were the last criminal defendants sentenced in a case that changed Pennsylvania law.…