Hazing-National, Louisiana

Max Gruver Hazing Death at LSU: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Chapter Leadership After Phi Delta Theta’s Own Published Admission It Wasn’t Doing Enough to Fight Hazing, the Acute Alcohol Toxicity That Killed an 18-Year-Old Freshman, We Move to Preserve Fraternity House Surveillance, Member Group Messages and National Compliance Records Before the Overwrite and Louisiana’s Short Prescriptive Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Anti-Hazing Statute in Plain Language, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and Is Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

National Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: When the Organization Itself Admits Failure You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to read anything. A young person left for college and did not come home. A fraternity that was supposed to build brotherhood built a coffin instead. And now the organization itself has put words on a page that a trial lawyer reads the way a surgeon reads an X-ray — as a confession. In September 2017, an 18-year-old freshman at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge died as a result of a hazing incident at the LSU chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. A documentary series released on February 22, 2024, brought national attention back to the case. And Phi Delta Theta’s own published statement acknowledged something that most defendants spend millions trying to deny: that the organization “wasn’t doing enough to fight hazing.” We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle fraternity hazing wrongful-death cases. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is currently lead counsel in an active $10 million-plus hazing wrongful-death lawsuit against a university fraternity. Lupe Peña, our associate attorney, spent years inside…

Hazing-National Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys: When a Bible Study Ritual Forces 190-Proof Alcohol and Max Gruver’s BAC Reaches a Lethal .495, Attorney911 Holds the University and the National Fraternity Behind the Chapter Accountable, We Preserve the GroupMe Messages, Toxicology Reports and Internal University Emails Before They Disappear, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Sovereign-Immunity and State-Entity Claims Are Valued and Denied, Louisiana’s One-Year Wrongful-Death Prescriptive Period Is Running, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

LSU Hazing Death: Max Gruver, the $6.1 Million Settlement, and What Every Family Must Know If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your phone showed you a headline about a fraternity death and a settlement, and you are sitting at a kitchen table trying to understand whether what happened to your child was a crime or an accident — you are in the right place. We are the trial team at Attorney911, and we build cases against the institutions that let hazing happen. We currently litigate a $10 million hazing lawsuit against the University of Houston and Pi Kappa Phi, and we know how these cases are built, how the defendants fight them, and what the evidence looks like before it disappears. What happened to Max Gruver — an 18-year-old freshman from Roswell, Georgia, who died in a Phi Delta Theta hazing ritual at Louisiana State University after being forced to drink 190-proof grain alcohol until his blood reached a lethal .495 percent — is not an isolated tragedy. It is the predictable output of a system that universities endorse, national fraternities brand, and local chapters operate with near-zero oversight. The $6.1 million settlement his family received from…

Max Gruver Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues Phi Delta Theta International and Its Local Chapter Behind the Bible Study Forced-Drinking Ritual That Killed an LSU Freshman at 0.495% Blood-Alcohol, 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 Greek-Letter Insurers Set Reserves and Invoke Hazing Exclusions, We Preserve the GroupMe Texts, Chapter Safety Audits and Toxicology Results Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Doctrine Under Its Pure Comparative-Negligence Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases Serving Hazing-National Fraternity Hazing Families — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Death That Proved the Policy Was Paper: Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Louisiana If you are reading this page, someone you love may not be coming home from college. Maybe it happened days ago. Maybe you are still waiting for answers from a university that promised safety and delivered a phone call instead. You are sitting at a kitchen table at an hour when no one should be awake, searching for something — anything — that explains how a teenager walking onto a campus in August ends up on a coroner’s table by September. We are writing this page for you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases in Louisiana and across the country, working with local counsel where required. Our lead attorney, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means he learned early that the truth is not delivered, it is uncovered. Our associate, Lupe Peña, spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decide how to deny, delay, and devalue claims…

Fatal Omega Psi Phi Hazing & Wrongful Death in Hazing-National: Attorney911 Holds National Organizations and Local Chapters Accountable for Ritualistic Abuse, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice & Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows the Claims Machine, We Secure Internal Communications and Social Media Proof Before the Evidence Clock Runs Out, Louisiana Max Gruver Act Doctrine and the Millions Recovered for Bereaved Families — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Rite of Passage Becomes a Wrongful Death in Hazing-National You sent your son to college to build a future, to find a community, and to earn a degree that would change his life. You did not send him to be subjected to “rituals” that treat human life as disposable. When a fraternity pledge is killed by forced alcohol poisoning or physical abuse, the organization will call it a tragedy or a rogue incident. We call it what it is: an institutional failure of the highest order. We understand that you are in the middle of a nightmare that most parents cannot even imagine. While the police handle the arrests and the state pursues criminal charges, our job is different. We are here to hold the entire system accountable—from the individual students who participated, to the local chapter officers who authorized the abuse, to the national fraternity that collected dues while failing to stop a known culture of violence. Fraternities often hide behind a “code of silence,” but that silence is broken in a courtroom. We work through the layers of corporate and organizational structure to find the truth that the fraternity and the university may be trying to…