Hazing Wrongful Death & Fraternity Liability Attorneys: Tucker Hipps, a Clemson University Sophomore, Fell From a Bridge During a Sigma Phi Epsilon Pledge Run in Pickens County — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapter and the University That Failed to Supervise Pledge-Period Activities, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Excess Carriers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Preserve GroupMe Records, Pledge Communications and Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, South Carolina Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Federal Stop Campus Hazing Act Now Mandates Clery Hazing Disclosure, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Clemson Hazing Wrongful Death Lawyer — When a Pledge Run Becomes a Death, the Law Finally Caught Up If you are reading this at the hour parents read things, your child went off to Clemson and did not come back. Or came back broken. The call came from a hospital, a bridge over Lake Hartwell, a fraternity house on a street you had never walked. And now someone — a dean, a fraternity advisor, an insurance adjuster who sounds sympathetic — is telling you it was an accident, that your son “chose to participate,” that the organization had no idea this would happen. None of that is the whole truth. South Carolina law has a word for what happened, and the word is hazing. And under South Carolina law, consent is not a defense to hazing. Your child did not consent to die. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes South Carolina wrongful death cases, working with local counsel and pro hac vice admission where the case requires it. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Our associate Lupe Peña spent years inside a national…