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…