Louisiana Personal Injury

Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death at Southern University: Caleb Jayden Wilson, a 20-Year-Old ‘Human Jukebox’ Band Member and Mechanical Engineering Junior, Killed by Repeated Chest Blows at a Baton Rouge Warehouse — Fraternity Members Delayed 911, Gave False Information to Hospital Staff, and Abandoned Him — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in an Active $10M+ Hazing-Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapter, and the University Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage, Cell-Phone Records, and Group-Chat Data Before the Overwrite Cycles Erase Them, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Govern the Civil Recovery, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Fraternity Takes Your Child: The Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful Death Lawsuit You are reading this at a kitchen table or in a car outside a courthouse, and the worst thing that can happen to a parent has already happened. Your son went off to college — a junior, a mechanical engineering student, a musician in a marching band that people drive across the state to hear — and he did not come home. He did not die in a car wreck or from an illness nobody could have stopped. He died because people he trusted, people who called him “brother,” punched him in the chest until his heart stopped, and then, when he collapsed, they did not call 911. They drove him to a hospital themselves, told the staff a story that was not true, and left him there alone. We are not going to pretend that words on a page can reach the depth of that loss. What we can do — and what this page exists to do — is tell you, in plain language, exactly what the law gives you, what the people who killed your son are already doing to protect themselves, and what…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Baton Rouge: Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Case Against Pi Kappa Phi, Pursues the National Fraternity Behind the 1990 Pledge Ban It Never Enforced and the University Whose Employees Were Present When a Blow to the Chest Stopped 20-Year-Old Caleb Wilson’s Heart During Underground Pledging — and Those Present Changed His Clothes and Abandoned Him at a Hospital Rather Than Calling for Help, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Cell Phone Records, Campus Surveillance and Fraternity Internal Documents Before the 30-Day CCTV Overwrite, Louisiana Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death Ruled Homicide: What It Means When a Coroner Says a Fraternity Killed Your Child You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the grief is loud. Maybe it has been weeks since that phone call, or maybe it has been months and the coroner’s ruling just came down and now the word “homicide” is sitting in your chest like a stone. Either way, you are here because your child went to college to learn mechanical engineering and play in the Human Jukebox marching band, and instead he came home in a way no parent should ever have to bury. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner did not call this an accident. The coroner called it what it is — a homicide, caused by cardiac arrest from a blow to the chest, delivered during an underground pledging ritual that was supposed to have been banned thirty-five years ago. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases in Louisiana, working with local counsel where required, and we are writing this page for one person: the parent, the sibling, the family member who is searching at 2 a.m.…

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Jul 22, 2026

Five men indicted by grand jury in connection with Southern University student Caleb Wilson’s hazing death – The Advocate

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Death: What the Grand Jury Indictments Mean for a Civil Case If your family is reading this, you already know what happened. A 20-year-old Kenner native — a trumpet player in Southern University’s Human Jukebox marching band — is dead after a fraternity ritual in a warehouse off Greenwell Springs Road. An East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury has returned a 56-count indictment against five men. The District Attorney has said publicly that the evidence is substantial, that anyone who sees it will be angry, and that this young man died because of what was done to him. That is the criminal case. It matters. It matters a great deal. But it is not the case that pays your family for what was taken. That is a separate case — a civil case — and it is running on a clock that is shorter than most families in your position ever realize. Louisiana gives you one year. We are going to walk you through every layer of what that means, who can be held responsible beyond the five indicted men, what evidence is already disappearing, what the medicine says about the minutes that were lost, and…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi’s National Organization, Its Expelled Beta Sigma Chapter, the Warehouse Owner and the University for the Chest-Punching Ritual That Killed a Southern University Human Jukebox Trumpet Player, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, Commotio Cordis From a Blow to the Chest Drove the Seizure and Collapse While Fraternity Members Lied to Hospital Staff About Basketball, We Preserve the Warehouse Footage, Group Chats and Hospital Records Before Louisiana’s One-Year Prescription Runs, Wrongful Death and Survival Actions Under the Civil Code, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What Happened at That Warehouse, Who Is Responsible, and What Your Family Must Do Before the Evidence Is Gone Your son went to college to play his trumpet. He came home in a box because people he called “brothers” lined him up and punched him until his heart stopped — and then, when he was unconscious and dying, they lied about how it happened. We know what that night looks like from the inside. We know what the fraternity is already doing to protect itself, what the evidence looks like, where it is hiding, and how fast it is being erased. Everything on this page is here to give you the power back in the hours and days when you feel you have none. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Louisiana, and we are writing this page to you, the family of a young person killed or catastrophically injured in a fraternity hazing ritual, as if you were sitting across our desk right now. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he…

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Jul 22, 2026

Maxwell Gruver, an 18-Year-Old LSU Freshman, Died of Alcohol Poisoning and Aspiration in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Ritual — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternity Organizations Accountable for Hazing Wrongful Death, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pursue the National Organization, the Local Chapter and the Members Who Furnished Lethal Alcohol to a Pledge Under Coercive Conditions, Louisiana’s Civil-Law Duty-Risk Analysis and Anti-Hazing Doctrine, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Reports Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Fraternity Takes Your Child: What Louisiana Law Says About Hazing Death If you are reading this, your family has been hit by something that should never have happened. Your son went to college — maybe just weeks ago, maybe just days — and a fraternity turned a promise of brotherhood into a death sentence. The phone call you got was not supposed to come. The room he died in was supposed to be a place where he made friends, not where he took his last breath. We know no words on a page can undo that. What we can do is tell you, plainly and completely, what the law actually says, what the institutions that let this happen are already doing to protect themselves, and what you can still do to hold them accountable. A Baton Rouge jury returned a $6.1 million verdict for the family of an 18-year-old Louisiana State University freshman who died of acute alcohol poisoning and aspiration during a hazing ritual at a fraternity house in 2017. His blood-alcohol content was reported at six times the legal driving limit. He had been enrolled at LSU for approximately one month. The verdict is real, it…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Death in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Warehouse Owner Behind the Pledging Ritual That Killed a 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior — Repeated Blunt Chest Trauma, No 911 Call, a Fabricated Basketball Story at the Hospital, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage and Group-Chat Records Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is Among the Shortest in the Nation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — What Louisiana Law Allows, What the Evidence Shows, and Why the Clock Is Already Running If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it was days ago and the grief is still a physical weight in your chest. Maybe it has been weeks and the shock has hardened into something worse — the slow, grinding realization that the people who killed your child are still walking around, still free, still telling themselves stories about what happened. You came here because you heard about what happened at Southern University — a 20-year-old junior, a mechanical engineering student, a trumpet player in the Human Jukebox marching band — dropped off at a hospital unresponsive at midnight, with a group of young men claiming he collapsed playing basketball. You heard that the police chief said it was a lie. That he died because he was punched in the chest, over and over, inside a warehouse, while pledging a fraternity. That no one called 911. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes fraternity hazing wrongful death cases — and right now, we are the only firm in the country actively…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Student Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Baton Rouge — Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi and Every Individual Behind the Boxing-Glove Pledging Ritual Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Commotio Cordis: How Four Chest Punches With Only a Small Bruise Trigger Fatal Cardiac Arrest, We Preserve Off-Campus Surveillance, Participant Cell-Phone Records and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite and Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Clock Runs, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hazing Ritual Becomes a Death Sentence: Your Family’s Rights in Louisiana You are reading this because someone you love is gone. Not from a disease they couldn’t fight, not from an accident nobody could prevent — from a ritual. A ritual that young men designed, organized, and ran in a room in Baton Rouge, where they put boxing gloves on their hands and punched your son in the chest until his heart stopped. And then, when he fell, not one of them picked up a phone. They watched. They waited. And when they finally carried him to a hospital, they lied about what happened and walked out the door before anyone could ask them the truth. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana cases, and we know what hazing does to families because we are living it right now in another case. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a fraternity at a major university. We know the culture. We know the cover-ups. We know the playbook the other side has already started running against your family. And we know…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death Lawsuit: Baton Rouge Fraternity Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to East Baton Rouge Parish, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapters and the University That Failed to Prevent Foreseeable Hazing, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Warehouse Surveillance on a 30-Day Overwrite Cycle, Group-Chat Records and Hospital Intake Statements That Document the Cover-Up Before They Disappear, Commotio Cordis From Repeated Chest Blows During an Unsanctioned Pledging Ritual Where Members Delayed 911 and Gave False Information at the Hospital, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and the State’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful Death: Who Can Be Held Accountable Under Louisiana Law If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your child did not come home from a fraternity ritual — or because you are watching a family grieve a pledging death that should never have happened — you are in the hardest moment a parent can face. We are going to tell you exactly what Louisiana law allows, who can be held responsible, and what is disappearing from the evidence while you read this page. You have one year under Louisiana law to file a delictual claim. That clock started the day your child died. But the proof that wins the case — the warehouse surveillance, the text messages between fraternity members, the social media posts that show what happened before and after — that proof is dying faster than the clock, and nobody is preserving it for you unless someone sends the letter that freezes it. Louisiana wrote its anti-hazing law — the Max Gruver Act — after a freshman died at LSU in 2017. That statute criminalized the exact conduct that killed your child, and it also sets the civil standard of care in a…

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Jul 21, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death at Southern University: Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organizations Behind Hazing Rituals and the Universities That Fail to Prevent Them, Fatal Blunt Chest Trauma From Boxing-Glove Strikes During an Unsanctioned Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Chapter Communications, Risk-Management Files and Cardiac Pathology Records Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Law and One-Year Wrongful-Death Prescriptive Period, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Death: What Families Need to Know Right Now If your family is reading this, someone you love is gone. A 20-year-old student at Southern University — a young man from Kenner with his whole life ahead of him — died in February 2025 after being punched in the chest with boxing gloves during what the fraternity called a pledging ritual. Five people have been charged. The criminal trial is set for August 19, 2026. Southern University expelled the fraternity. And you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand what any of this means for your family. We are going to tell you the truth about what the law allows, what the deadlines are, and what the other side is already doing. None of this is fair. All of it is real. And the most important thing we can tell you — before any other word on this page — is that Louisiana gives families one year from the date of death to file a wrongful death claim. That clock started ticking in February 2025. It may have already run out. If no civil petition was filed by approximately February 2026, your…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Explosion Injury Attorneys in Louisiana: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to OCSLA, Jones Act and General Maritime Law Claims on the Outer Continental Shelf, The Vermilion Block 380 Blast Where Four Documented Prior Accidents Since 2000 Including a 2007 Maintenance Fire Are the Punitive-Damages Engine, We Pursue Platform Operators Like Mariner Energy and the Maintenance Contractors Behind Offshore Explosions, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Lockout/Tagout Records and Gas-Detection System Logs Before the Platform Is Repaired, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Maritime Injury Recovery ($2M+ Recovered), Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Platform You Were Working On Exploded — Your Rights Under Maritime Law If you are reading this from a hospital bed, or from the kitchen table of a family that just got the call nobody on the Gulf ever wants to get, you need to know something right now: the law that protects you is not the law most people think it is. You are not in the workers’ compensation system. You are not capped at a benefit schedule. You are on the Outer Continental Shelf, and a different, older, and far more powerful body of federal law applies — and it was written for exactly this moment. When a production platform ninety miles off the Louisiana coast erupts in fire while thirteen people are aboard, the company that operated it has a plan already running. Within hours, their claims representatives are on the phone — friendly, concerned, and building a record that protects the company, not you. Within days, the physical evidence on that platform is being photographed, catalogued, and in some cases repaired, modified, or dismantled. And the thirteen workers who survived are dispersing — to different homes, different employers, different memories of what happened in…

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