Fraternity Tailgate Battery & Projectile Head-Injury Attorneys: When an 11-Pound Metal Basketball Rim Clears a Privacy Fence at a Gainesville Fraternity House and Gashes a Tailgater’s Scalp — Seven Staples at Shands and Potential TBI — Attorney911 Pursues the Chapter, Its National Organization and the Social Host Behind the Negligent Supervision and Underage Drinking That Fueled the Act, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Fraternity Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Campus Assault Claims, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage and Ephemeral Social Media Evidence Before the Overwrite, Florida Negligence Per Se From the Felony Battery Charge and Punitive Damages for Intentional Misconduct, the Firm Has Recovered $5M+ in Brain-Injury Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Gainesville Fraternity Tailgate Injury: When a Thrown Metal Rim Becomes a Lawsuit You were at a tailgate. That is what you were doing — standing in a backyard on Fraternity Row, enjoying a game-day afternoon, the kind of scene that defines Gainesville in the fall. Then an eleven-pound metal basketball rim came over a privacy fence and struck you in the head. You ended up at Shands Hospital with seven surgical staples closing a gash in your scalp, and the person who threw it told police he was drunk and did it because a fraternity brother dared him to. That is not a prank. That is not college high jinks. A twenty-year-old threw a heavy metal object over a fence into a crowd of people, and your head is what stopped it. The police arrested him on felony battery charges — which tells you something about how seriously the criminal system takes this. But the criminal case does not pay your medical bills. The criminal case does not cover the follow-up neurology appointments, the missed classes, the scar that may never fully fade, or the headaches that might still be there in three months. We are a trial firm that…