Louisiana Personal Injury

Jul 15, 2026

Deepwater Horizon Offshore Explosion & Blowout Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Gulf of Mexico Waters, 11 Workers Killed and 17 Injured, Four Critically Burned, When a Well Blowout During Cementing Overwhelmed Every Safety System 50 Miles Off the Louisiana Coast, We Pursue the Well Operators, Rig Owners and Cementing Contractors Under the Jones Act, the Death on the High Seas Act and the Maritime Unseaworthiness Doctrine, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Blowout Preventer Data, Cementing Records and Gas-Detection Logs Before They Are Lost on a Burning Rig, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2M+ in Maritime Injury Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Offshore Oil Rig Explosions: What Maritime Law Gives You After a Blowout The night a blowout turns a drilling rig into a pillar of flame, the first thing that fails is the well. The second thing that fails is the plan. And the third thing that fails — the thing nobody told you about — is the assumption that working 50 miles off the Louisiana coast means the same legal rules as working on land. They do not. Offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico operate under a legal framework that is older, stranger, and in some critical ways more powerful than the workers’ compensation system that covers most American workplaces. But it is also a framework the companies understand far better than the workers do — and that gap in knowledge is the first thing the defense exploits. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle offshore and maritime injury cases in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast. This page is the education we wish every offshore worker and every family of every offshore worker had before the company’s investigator arrived with a clipboard and a recorded-statement form. Everything here is legal information, not legal…

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Jul 10, 2026

PFAS Forever Chemicals in 105 of 107 Southeast Louisiana Tap Water Samples — Toxic Exposure & Environmental Contamination Attorneys, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Seven-Parish Mississippi River Corridor from St. James to Plaquemines, We Pursue the PFAS Manufacturers, Industrial Dischargers and Water System Operators Behind the Contamination, Lead in 67% and Arsenic in 70% of Tested Homes with Salt Exceeding EPA Thresholds in Every Low-River Sample, Bioaccumulative Forever Chemicals Linked to Liver Damage, Thyroid Disease and Reduced Vaccine Response in Children, We Move to Secure Blood Serum PFAS Testing and Historical Water Utility Records Before the Preservation Clock Expires, Safe Drinking Water Act and Louisiana Environmental Quality Act Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Drinking Water Has “Forever Chemicals” in It — What That Means for Your Family in Southeast Louisiana You just found out that the water coming out of your tap — the water you have been drinking, cooking with, making baby formula with, showering in — contains chemicals that do not break down. Not in the environment. Not in your body. A residential water quality study tested 107 homes across seven Southeast Louisiana parishes and found PFAS in 105 of them. Perfluorooctanoic acid appeared in 97.2 percent of the samples. Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid showed up in 72.9 percent. Arsenic was in 70 percent. Lead was in 67 percent. Every single sample taken during low Mississippi River water levels exceeded the EPA’s recommended salt thresholds. One sample in Plaquemines Parish measured 43 percent above the pending federal limit for PFAS. If you live in St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, or Plaquemines Parish, this is your kitchen table right now. You are looking at a glass of water and wondering whether it is safe to drink. You are wondering what this means for your children, whose developing immune systems the science says are especially vulnerable.…

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Jul 10, 2026

PFAS Forever-Chemical Contamination from the Smitty’s Supply Petrochemical Fire in Roseland, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Florida Parishes Corridor, We Pursue the Facility Operators and the Firefighting-Foam Manufacturers Behind 24 PFAS Compounds Measured at 13,000 Parts Per Trillion, 3,250 Times the EPA Drinking-Water Standard, We Move to Secure the LDEQ Lab Reports, Private Well Samples and Blood-Testing Baselines Before the Contamination Plume Migrates Further With Every Rainfall, the Hired Treatment System Physically Cannot Remove PFAS Yet Millions of Gallons Were Permitted Into the Tangipahoa River Flowing to Lake Pontchartrain, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Environmental Cases, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period May Already Be Running From the August Fire While Contra Non Valentem May Suspend Prescription for Latent PFAS Exposure, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Smitty’s Supply Fire Dumped “Forever Chemicals” Into Your Water at 3,250 Times the EPA’s Safe Limit — Here Is What That Means for Your Family If you live near Roseland, or along the Tangipahoa River, or anywhere between the Smitty’s Supply plant and Lake Pontchartrain, you are reading this because you heard the words “forever chemicals” and felt your stomach drop. You may have seen the fire burn for two weeks from your porch. You may have tubed in that river last summer. You may have a private well you have been drinking from for years. You may have just learned that the state released lab reports showing 24 different PFAS compounds in stormwater coming off that destroyed facility — including one measured at 13,000 parts per trillion, which is 3,250 times higher than the level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is safe in drinking water. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take toxic exposure and environmental contamination cases in Louisiana. This page is not a news article. It is the straight, detailed truth about what happened at the Smitty’s Supply site in Tangipahoa Parish, what the contamination means for your family’s health, what…

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Jul 9, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability Attorneys: The $230M New Orleans Archdiocese Bankruptcy Settlement for 600+ Survivors of Decades of Concealed Clergy Abuse, Louisiana’s Revival Statute That Reopened Time-Barred Claims Upheld by the State Supreme Court, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the Archdiocese and the Institutional Structures That Shielded Known Abusers, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Institution That Spent $50M in Legal Fees Fighting Survivors, We Secure the Clergy Personnel Files and Assignment Histories Before Protective Orders Seal Them, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Clergy Abuse Settlement: What $230 Million Means for Survivors in Louisiana If you are reading this, you may be one of the hundreds of survivors who voted — or one of the people who did not know a claim could still be filed. You may be the family member of someone who carried the weight for decades and never told a living soul. You may be watching a bankruptcy proceeding in a federal courthouse in New Orleans and wondering whether the number on the screen — $230 million — has anything to do with what was taken from you. It does. And it does not. Because the settlement is real, the vote was near-unanimous, and the confirmation hearing is coming. And because no dollar figure answers the question you actually carry: what happened to me was wrong, and does anyone with the power to say so out loud have the courage to say it? The near-unanimous vote — 489 clergy abuse claimants in favor, only two opposed, a 99.63% creditor approval — is the closest thing to institutional validation that the civil system produces. Hundreds of people who were abused as children by clergy in New Orleans looked…

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Jul 9, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability Attorneys — The New Orleans Archdiocese’s $305M Bankruptcy Settlement for 600 Survivors After Louisiana’s Revival Statute Broke the Church’s Prescription Defense, Among Them Linda Lee Stonebreaker, Molested at Age Four — Attorney911 Holds Religious Institutions and Their Insurers Behind Decades of Negligent Supervision, Reassignment of Known Abusers and Concealment, We Secure the Clergy Personnel Files and Assignment Records Before They Are Sealed in the Bankruptcy, Travelers Covered the Archdiocese 1973–1989 During the Peak Abuse Period, 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, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Louisiana Imposes No Damages Cap on Sexual Abuse Claims, the Revival Window’s Status Determines Whether New Claims Can Still Be Filed — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Orleans Clergy Abuse Settlement: $305 Million for 600 Survivors — What It Means and What Comes Next You have been carrying this for a long time. Maybe decades. Maybe you were a child in a parish school in Orleans Parish, or an altar server at a church across the river in Jefferson, or a kid in a Catholic youth group in St. Tammany — and the person you were taught to trust most in the world used that trust to destroy part of you. You may have told no one. You may have tried to tell someone and been shut down. You may have spent years believing it was your fault, or that no one would believe you, or that the law had already closed the door because it happened too long ago. Then you read that roughly 600 survivors of clergy sexual abuse in New Orleans are in line to receive $305 million. That the archdiocese — the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States, founded in 1793, anchored by the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter that has stood through two centuries of Louisiana history — filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2020 because the weight…

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Jul 9, 2026

Diocese of Alexandria Sexual Abuse Claims & June 8, 2026 Bankruptcy Bar Date: Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Guides Survivors of Clergy Abuse at Louisiana Parish Churches, Diocesan Schools, Orphanages and Catholic Charities Programs Through the Chapter 11 Claims Process, We Pursue the Diocese’s Historical Insurers and Pull the Personnel Files and Clergy Transfer Records Before They Disappear, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, PTSD and Dissociative Trauma Compensable Under the Bankruptcy Trust’s Severity Matrix, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Louisiana’s Prescription Lookback Superseded by the Court’s Absolute Bar Date, Confidential Filing Protections Available — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Diocese of Alexandria Bankruptcy Bar Date: June 8, 2026 — and What It Means for Survivors If you are reading this page, you may have been carrying something for years — maybe decades — that you told no one about, or told only one person. What happened to you was real. It was not your fault. And the institution that allowed it now has a federal court deadline attached to it that changes everything about your right to compensation. The Diocese of Alexandria filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana set a bar date of June 8, 2026. That is the last day a survivor of sexual abuse connected to any diocesan entity can file a claim. After that date, the claim is permanently discharged — erased by the bankruptcy process, no matter how strong it would have been, no matter when the abuse occurred, no matter when you first connected what happened to you to the harm it caused. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We built this page because the news told you a deadline exists. It did not tell you what the deadline means, how…

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Jul 8, 2026

Diocese of Alexandria Bankruptcy & Clergy Sexual Abuse Claims: 85 Survivors, 30+ Accused Priests, Abuse From 1945 Into the 2000s Across Alexandria, Pineville and 13 Louisiana Civil Parishes — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Institutional Sexual-Abuse Litigation Against Dioceses That Knew of Predator Priests and Shuffled Them Between Parishes Instead of Warning Families, We Pursue the Diocese, Its Supervisory Leadership and the Insurance Carriers Behind the Compensation Pool, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Personnel Files, Transfer Records and Insurance Policies Before the Bankruptcy Bar Date Closes the Window, Louisiana’s Child Sexual-Abuse Lookback Window Expires June 14, 2027 — the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Moment You Are In You may have heard the news and felt something you cannot quite name. Not relief, exactly. Not closure. Something older than that — the recognition that an institution you were taught to trust is finally, publicly, admitting what was done to you. The Diocese of Alexandria filed for bankruptcy on October 31, 2025, and in the bishop’s own letter, the words were plain: “We are at this moment for one reason: some priests sexually abused minors.” If you are a survivor of clergy sexual abuse in central Louisiana — whether it happened in Alexandria, Pineville, or any of the 13 civil parishes this diocese covers — you are reading this at a moment that is both an opening and a clock. The opening: Louisiana law has revived the right to file a claim no matter how long ago the abuse occurred, through a lookback window that does not close until June 14, 2027. The clock: a bankruptcy court will set its own deadline — a bar date — that may arrive sooner than that, and if you miss it, your claim is gone forever. You do not have to know yet whether you want to…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Cover-Up — Attorney911 Pursues the Archdiocese and Its 150 Affiliates for Decades of Predation Across New Orleans Churches and Schools, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Internal Abuse Files, Personnel Records and Assignment Histories That Prove Negligent Supervision and Fraudulent Concealment, Louisiana’s Childhood Sexual Abuse Revival Statute Reopened Courthouse Doors to Time-Barred Survivors and the Active Trafficking Investigation Opens TVPRA Civil Claims Against Non-Debtor Church Officials, Complex PTSD and Religious Trauma from Clergy Authority-Figure Abuse, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The New Orleans Archdiocese $230 Million Clergy Abuse Settlement: What Survivors and Families Need to Know If you are reading this page, you may be one of the roughly 600 survivors whose claims forced the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States into federal bankruptcy court — or you may be someone who was abused by clergy in Louisiana and is only now learning that the law changed in ways that might still give you a path forward. Either way, what happened in a New Orleans federal courtroom in December 2025 was not just a number on a page. It was the end of more than five years of litigation that an institution initially believed it could settle for less than $7 million — and that ultimately cost it $230 million, with another $75 million possibly coming from its insurer, plus more than $50 million in legal fees it spent fighting the very people it had failed to protect. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes cases in Louisiana, and we built this page because the settlement confirmation raises questions that general news coverage does not answer: How will the points system…

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Jul 3, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death Lawsuit in Baton Rouge — Attorney911 Represents the Family of the 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior After the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Ruled His Death a Homicide From Cardiac Arrest Caused by a Blow to the Chest During Underground Omega Psi Phi Pledging, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapters and the University Behind the Hazing and the Cover-Up That Changed His Clothes and Fabricated a Story Instead of Calling for Help, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, 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 the Coroner’s Autopsy Report, Group-Chat Forensics and Hospital Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Doctrine in the 19th Judicial District, 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 Lawsuit: The Homicide Ruling, Commotio Cordis, and the Fight Against Underground Fraternity Pledging If you are reading this, you may be a parent who just buried a child. You may be a student who watched a friend collapse and could not save him. You may be a family member who received the phone call that no parent should ever get. We are writing to you — the person at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a folder of questions and a grief that has no bottom. What happened to a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student and member of the Human Jukebox marching band at Southern University was not an accident. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner said so in plain language: this was a homicide, caused by cardiac arrest from a blunt-force blow to the chest. That single word — homicide — is what changes this from a campus tragedy into a civil rights and wrongful death case. And that word is the foundation of everything we do from here. The law that protects your family in Louisiana is specific, and it is short on time. Louisiana has an exceptionally short one-year prescriptive period for delictual…

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Jul 3, 2026

LSU TKE Hazing & Battery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Three Fraternity Members Cited for Striking Pledges at Two Off-Campus Locations, Attorney911 Is Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the Chapter and Its National Organization Behind the Coercive Pledging Culture, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the GroupMe and Snapchat Coordination Logs Before Auto-Deletion While the Fraternity’s Accountability Process Aligns Stories, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Law and the Running Prescriptive Period, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

LSU TKE Hazing in Baton Rouge: What Happened and What Your Rights Are If you are reading this page, you already know what happened on October 9, 2025. You know that active members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity — the Beta-Phi Chapter at Louisiana State University — struck pledges at two separate off-campus locations in Baton Rouge. You may be one of the pledges who was hit. You may be a parent who just learned your son came home with bruises he would not explain. You may be a witness who saw what happened and is trying to decide whether coming forward is loyalty or betrayal. We need to talk to you before the fraternity finishes the conversation it is already having with itself. Three TKE members — Logan Greneaux, 20, Brody Tanner, 19, and Thomas Lavergne, 22 — have been cited by LSU police for principal to criminal hazing and simple battery. They were issued summons, not booked into jail, because the charges are misdemeanors. More arrests may follow. The fraternity released a statement saying it “proactively self-reported” and does “not condone violence of any kind.” That statement is not an apology. It is a legal strategy, and…

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