Louisiana Personal Injury

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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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil Platform Explosion & Critical Burn Attorneys: Four Critically Burned, Two Missing After a Cutting-Torch Ignition on a Gulf Production Platform 25 Miles Off Grand Isle, Louisiana — Attorney911 Pursues the Platform Operators and Hot-Work Contractors Behind the Blast, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Gas-Monitoring Data and BSEE Investigation Files Before the Fire-Origin Area Is Repaired Over, OCSLA Extends Louisiana Law and the Jones Act to the Outer Continental Shelf, General Maritime Punitive Damages for Willful Disregard of Hot-Work Safety, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $2M+ Maritime Settlement and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Oil Platform Explosion: Your Legal Rights After an Offshore Fire If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that platform — or you were. The fire came on a November morning twenty-five miles off Grand Isle, while workers were using a cutting torch, and four people were flown to a hospital with critical burns and two vanished into the Gulf. You may be sitting in a burn-unit waiting room right now, or you may be the family of someone who did not come home, and a voice on the phone — friendly, calm, saying they just want to “help” — is already asking you questions. Before you answer that voice, read this page. Everything the operator was required to do before that torch was lit, every record that proves whether they did it, every dollar the law says this is worth, and every deadline that is already running against your family is in here — and the first thing you need to hear is that this explosion was not an accident. It was a failure of a safety system that federal law requires on every platform on the Outer Continental Shelf, and the proof of that…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Platform Explosion & Wrongful Death Near Grand Isle, Louisiana: Attorney911 Pursues Black Elk Energy and the Contractors Behind the Hot-Work Blast That Killed One Worker, Left Two Missing, and Severely Burned Four When a Torch Cut Into Oil-Filled Pipe on a Production Platform Shut Down Since Mid-August, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Hot-Work Permits, Gas-Testing Records and Shutdown Purge Documentation Before the Platform Is Repaired, OCSLA, LHWCA and DOHSA Claims on the Outer Continental Shelf, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Grand Isle, Louisiana Offshore Platform Explosion Claims: Your Rights After the Black Elk Energy Platform Blast If you are reading this page because someone you love was on that platform on November 16, 2012 — or because you were one of the twenty-two people aboard when the fire broke out — you are already behind. Not because you did anything wrong, but because the evidence that proves what really happened on that rig is already disappearing, and the companies that bear responsibility are already building their defense. We are writing this page to give you what the companies will not: the truth about what the law entitles you to, what the evidence clock is doing right now, and what the first seventy-two hours must look like if your family’s right to hold someone accountable is going to survive. Here is what we know: a production platform operated by Black Elk Energy, sitting in roughly fifty-six feet of water about seventeen miles south-southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, exploded and burned when maintenance workers employed by Grand Isle Shipyard used a torch to cut into a pipe that contained oil. Twenty-two people were on board. Eleven were evacuated. Nine were taken to…

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Jul 15, 2026

Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion & Maritime Burn-Injury Attorneys: Seven Crew Hospitalized with Burns and Blast Wounds, One Missing After a Natural Gas Storage Transfer Platform Erupts Two Miles Off Kenner in Jefferson Parish — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Admiralty Jurisdiction on Navigable Waters, We Pursue the Platform Operator, the Chemical Supplier and the Contractor Stack Behind the Blast, General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness and Jones Act Claims, Maintenance and Cure Rights That Attach Immediately Regardless of Fault, No Statutory Damage Caps Under Maritime Law, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Energy-Industry Claims Machine Values and Denies Burn and Blast Cases, We Move to Preserve the Fire Cause-and-Origin Debris, Cleaning Chemical Containers and Safety Data Sheets, Platform Maintenance Logs and Coast Guard Investigation File Before the Active Fire and Weathering Destroy the Evidence, the Louisiana Prescriptive Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Kenner, Jefferson Parish: Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion — Your Maritime Rights After the Fire If you are reading this from a hospital waiting room — or from a kitchen table where a chair is empty and a phone will not ring — we need you to understand one thing before anything else. The fire on Lake Pontchartrain was not just burning a platform. It was burning the evidence of what happened to your family. And while you sat in that waiting room, the company that owned that platform already had its lawyers on the phone. That is not paranoia. That is how these cases work. Within hours of an explosion, the platform operator’s insurance team is setting reserves, crafting narratives, and deciding which records to preserve and which to let disappear. The fire that was still burning on that Monday morning in October 2017 was consuming the physical evidence — the failed tank, the chemical containers, the ignition source — in real time. Every hour that passed without a formal preservation demand was an hour the defense was given for free. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore and maritime injury cases, and we are…

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Jul 15, 2026

Shell Auger Platform Lifeboat Drill Fatalities, Two Dead Offshore Louisiana — Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime Wrongful-Death Claims Under DOHSA, the Jones Act, OCSLA & General Maritime Law, We Pursue Shell, the Lifeboat and Davit Manufacturers, and the Maintenance Contractors Behind the Lifeboat Launch System Failure, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Offshore Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Lifeboat, Davit System and Platform CCTV Before the 30-Day Overwrite Erases the Evidence, DOHSA Limits Death Recovery to Pecuniary Losses But Product Liability Against Equipment Manufacturers Can Recover What DOHSA Bars, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Settlements and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Offshore Lifeboat Drill Deaths: Your Rights Under Federal Maritime Law When a Safety Drill Turns Fatal Your husband, your father, your son went to work on a Sunday morning in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and did not come home. He was not killed by a blowout or a fire or a storm. He was killed during a mandatory safety drill — the very exercise the company ran to prove it could protect him. That is the cruelest part of what happened at the Shell Auger Tension Leg Platform, 214 miles south of New Orleans, and it is the fact that will sit in your chest for the rest of your life. He did everything the company asked. He followed the rules. And the rules killed him. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana offshore injury and wrongful death cases, working with local counsel in the Eastern District of Louisiana where the majority of Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf cases are filed. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means…

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