Louisiana Personal Injury

Jul 3, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Hazing Death at a Baton Rouge Warehouse: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi’s National Organization and Campus Chapter Under the Max Gruver Act — a 20-Year-Old Southern University Mechanical Engineering Junior and Human Jukebox Trumpet Player Punched in the Chest Multiple Times During a Pledging Ritual, Fraternity Members Lied About a Basketball Collapse and Fled the Hospital Without Calling 911 — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Warehouse Surveillance, Pledge Group Chats and Cell-Phone Geolocation Data Before the Overwrite, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Louisiana Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With the Prescriptive Period Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Death of a Human Jukebox: Justice for Caleb Wilson and Every Family Destroyed by a Fraternity Hazing Ritual in Baton Rouge If you are reading this page, your family has been shattered by something that was supposed to be a brotherhood ritual and became a killing. A 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior at Southern University, a trumpet player in the Human Jukebox marching band — a young man who had just performed on the world’s biggest stage at the Super Bowl — is gone because people he wanted to call brothers punched him in the chest until his heart stopped. Then they lied about it. They told the hospital he collapsed playing basketball. They fled before the police arrived. They never called 911. And they left your family to learn the truth from investigators instead of from the people who were standing there when your son stopped breathing. We are the Manginello Law Firm — Attorney911, and we take hazing wrongful death cases in Louisiana. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. Lupe Peña spent years…

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Jul 3, 2026

Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys — Max Gruver, 18, Died at .495 BAC from Acute Alcohol Intoxication With Aspiration When Phi Delta Theta’s Bible Study Ritual Forced Him to Chug 190-Proof Diesel Liquor at LSU in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organizations and Their CGL Insurers Behind Forced-Consumption Rituals, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the GroupMe Texts, Chapter Minutes and Toxicology Reports Before They Disappear, the Statute of Limitations Is Running, the Max Gruver Act’s Anti-Hazing Felony Standard and Louisiana Wrongful-Death Doctrine Where Pledge Consent Is Not a Defense, 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 — Your Rights When a College “Ritual” Turns Fatal You are reading this at an hour when no parent should be awake. Your son went away to school — maybe to LSU, maybe to another campus in Louisiana — and what was supposed to be the beginning of his life became the end of it. A fraternity ritual. A bottle of 190-proof liquor. A couch he never woke up from. And now a death certificate that uses words like “acute alcohol intoxication” and “aspiration,” clinical language for a boy who drowned in his own vomit while the people who called him “brother” waited until morning to call for help. We need you to hear one thing before anything else: this was not your son’s fault. A pledge standing in a room full of older members who control whether he gets to belong — who are quizzing him, watching him, and forcing him to drink near-pure alcohol every time he gets an answer wrong — is not a person making free choices. He is a person in a coercive power structure that was designed and run by the people above him. The law in Louisiana…

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Jul 3, 2026

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…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death After a Forced-Alcohol Pledging Ritual Killed 18-Year-Old Max Gruver at LSU — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University Answerable for Negligent Supervision That Left a Pledge Unresponsive on a Couch Until Morning in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Set Reserves and Deny These Claims, We Secure the Cell-Phone Records, Toxicology Reports and Chapter Bylaws on a Preservation Clock While the Prescriptive Period Runs, Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Doctrine Under Pure Comparative Fault, 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 Hazing Ritual Kills Your Child in Baton Rouge — What the Law Actually Does You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the grief is loudest. Your son went away to school — to LSU, to a campus that promised growth and friendship and a future — and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive a child. Maybe the call came from the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office. Maybe it came from a detective. Maybe it came from another pledge who was there and cannot sleep either. However you learned, you are now sitting with a fact that does not fit inside any sentence: your child is dead because of a ritual that the people who ran it called tradition and the law calls a crime. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take wrongful death and hazing cases in Louisiana, and right now we are also actively litigating a hazing wrongful death lawsuit against a university and fraternity in Texas. What we are about to tell you is not a sales pitch. It is a protect-and-arm brief — everything the other side is…

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Jul 3, 2026

Max Gruver Wrongful Death at LSU — Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue Phi Delta Theta and Its Louisiana Beta Chapter Behind the Forced-Drinking Ritual That Killed a Freshman Pledge on September 14, 2017, We Preserve the Group Chats, Toxicology Reports and Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the State’s Wrongful-Death Doctrine and One-Year Prescription Clock, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — Your Family’s Rights After a Hazing Death at LSU or Any Louisiana Campus If you are reading this because your child died at a fraternity house in Louisiana, the first thing you need to know is this: Louisiana gives you one year to file a wrongful death claim. That clock started the day your child died, and it is one of the shortest deadlines in the country. The fraternity’s insurance company already knows about that clock — even if you are still making funeral arrangements. We are the trial team at Attorney911 that takes Louisiana hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he serves as lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims exactly like yours — and now sits on your side of the table. We work Louisiana cases with local counsel where required, and we do not get paid unless we win. This page is written for…

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Jul 3, 2026

LSU Hazing Death & Wrongful Death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Attorney911 Fights for Families Destroyed by Fraternity Hazing — Max Gruver Died September 14, 2017 After a Forced-Drinking Bible Study Ritual at Phi Delta Theta’s Louisiana Beta Chapter — His 0.495 BAC Was Not Partying but Poisoning, We Pursue the National Fraternity for Negligent Supervision of Its Local Chapter, We Preserve the GroupMe and SMS Logs Before They Are Wiped, the Fraternity’s National Records Before the Document-Retention Purge, and Subpoena the Toxicology and Autopsy Reports, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Litigation, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Aggregate Insurance Layers Are Structured and How the Claims Machine Will Try to Blame the Victim for Drinking, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Law and the Max Gruver Act Forged From His Death, 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, Louisiana Fraternity Hazing Death Lawyer — When the Promise of Brotherhood Becomes the Cause of Death You are reading this at an hour when no family should be awake. Your son went to LSU to get an education, and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to describe. Or maybe he is still alive but broken — hospitalized, traumatized, changed — and you are sitting in a waiting room trying to understand how an organization that called itself a brotherhood left him for dead. We are going to tell you, in plain language, exactly what the law allows, who can be held accountable, how the evidence works, how fast it disappears, and what a case like this is worth — because the first thing you need, right now, is the truth about what is possible. A 19-year-old freshman pledge at the Louisiana Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta at Louisiana State University died on September 14, 2017, after a forced-drinking ritual the chapter called “Bible Study.” Pledges were required to consume high-proof alcohol as punishment for incorrectly answering questions about the fraternity. His blood-alcohol content was 0.495 percent — a number a toxicologist does…

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Jul 3, 2026

LSU Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Max Gruver, an 18-Year-Old Freshman, Died at 0.495% BAC from Forced 190-Proof Alcohol in a Bible Study Hazing Ritual at the Phi Delta Theta House in Baton Rouge, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter, the Housing Corporation and the Insurers Behind Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Blames the Pledge, We Preserve GroupMe Messages and House Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, the Max Gruver Act Made Hazing a Felony in Louisiana and the Short Prescriptive Period for Wrongful-Death Claims Is Running, 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 Lawsuits: When a Pledge Doesn’t Come Home You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to be awake. Your son went off to college — to LSU, to a campus in Baton Rouge, to the flagship university that was supposed to be the beginning of everything — and he did not come home. Or he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive. The phone call came. The autopsy came. The words “blood alcohol content” and “hazing” came, and now you are sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning trying to understand how an 18-year-old who walked into a fraternity house on a September night died there before morning. We are the trial attorneys who take these cases, and this page is the first thing that should make sense after that call. Everything here is the truth about what Louisiana law allows your family to do — and what the fraternity, its insurance company, and its lawyers are already doing to make sure you cannot do it. National Hazing Prevention Week arrives every September. Organizations put out statements. They partner with foundations named after dead…

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Jul 3, 2026

Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Southern University Student Caleb Wilson Died After Boxing-Glove Chest Punches at an Off-Campus Warehouse Where Fraternity Members Changed His Clothes Instead of Calling 911 — Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity-Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Chapter and the Warehouse Owner Under Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing and Wrongful-Death Law, We Move to Preserve the GroupMe Messages, Surveillance Video and Changed Clothing Before the Footage Overwrites and the Prescriptive Period Runs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Survival Actions for the Seizure and Collapse, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Hazing Kills: A Fraternity Pledge’s Death in Baton Rouge and Your Family’s Legal Rights If you are reading this page, you already know the worst thing a parent can learn. A child left for college and came home in a way no family should have to receive him. What happened on February 27, 2025, in a warehouse off campus in Baton Rouge was not an accident, was not a game that went too far, and was not a tragedy no one could have prevented. It was a crime under Louisiana law, and it was the foreseeable result of a culture that a national fraternity organization either failed to police or chose to tolerate. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death cases in Louisiana, and we are here to tell you exactly how the law treats what happened, who can be held accountable, what the evidence shows, and why the clock on your family’s rights is already running. The core facts, as investigators have alleged: a Southern University student and Omega Psi Phi pledge was one of nine young men taken to an off-campus warehouse, where fraternity members wearing boxing gloves punched the pledges in the chest in…

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Jul 3, 2026

Caleb Wilson, a 20-Year-Old Southern University Marching Band Member, Collapsed and Died After Repeated Chest Punches in an Omega Psi Phi Hazing Ritual in Baton Rouge — Five Now Indicted, the Family Has Filed Wrongful Death Suit: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Expelled Chapter and the Off-Campus Property Owner, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Institutional Liability Cases, We Move to Preserve Cell Phone Forensics, Hospital Surveillance Footage and Fraternity Ritual Manuals Before They Are Purged, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and the State’s Short Wrongful-Death Prescription Clock Drive the Urgency, 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 Death: What the Law Allows When a Ritual Kills a Student You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the weight is loudest. Your son, your brother, your grandson — a scholar, a musician, a young man with a life in front of him — went to a fraternity event and never came home. The police have made arrests. A grand jury has indicted. The university has expelled the chapter. And you are sitting at a kitchen table with a folder of papers you do not understand, being circled by people who sound sympathetic and are not. We are going to tell you, in plain language, what happened to your family under Louisiana law, what the other side is already doing, and what the first steps are. This is what we do. This is what we know. And the call is free. Louisiana has one of the shortest deadlines in the country to file a wrongful death case — one year. That clock is already running. It started the day your loved one died. The evidence that proves what happened is already disappearing on its own schedule — cell phone data…

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Jul 3, 2026

Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful-Death Attorneys: Southern University Student Caleb Wilson, 20, Killed by Repeated Chest Punches in an Off-Campus Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual at a Warehouse, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Property Owner Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, 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 Fraternity’s Insurer Values and Denies These Claims, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage and the Pledging-Line Group Messages Before They Are Deleted, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death at Southern University: What Louisiana Law Says, What the Evidence Shows, and What a Family Can Do If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone — a son, a brother, a bandmate, a friend — and the reason he is gone is that a fraternity decided his life was worth less than a ritual. You are in Baton Rouge, or you have family in Baton Rouge, and right now the university is issuing statements, the police are making arrests, and the fraternity’s national office is putting distance between itself and what happened. We are going to tell you exactly what the law in Louisiana says about this, what evidence is disappearing at this very moment, and what a family can actually do when a hazing ritual turns fatal. This page is legal information, not legal advice — but it is written by trial lawyers who know this fight, who are fighting it right now in another hazing case, and who will tell you the truth about what you are up against and how to win. What happened at that warehouse in Baton Rouge is not a mystery. A 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior, a…

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