Miami Personal Injury

University of Miami Phi Delta Theta Hazing Investigation: Pledge Set on Fire at a Fraternity Pool Party in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and the University Under Florida’s Chad Meredith Act, the Civil Hazing Statute Named After a UM Student Who Died in a 2001 Hazing Incident Where the Victim’s Consent Is No Defense, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Preserve the Video Metadata, Group-Chat Communications and Burned Clothing Before Social Media Content Expires on 24-Hour Cycles, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Watched Someone Set a Person on Fire and Call It Brotherhood — Here Is What Florida Law Says About What Happens Next If you are reading this because you saw the video — a shirtless man at a University of Miami pool party igniting another man’s jeans, watching him erupt in flames before someone tackles him toward the water — you are probably caught between two reactions that do not fit together. The first is instinct: this is wrong, this is violent, this could have killed someone. The second is the voice the fraternity culture puts in your head: it was a joke, he was fine, he went into the pool, nobody got hurt, and anyway, he chose to be there. We are going to tell you what Florida law says about both of those reactions, and we are going to tell you plainly. Setting a person on fire is not a prank. It is not a rite of passage. And the fact that the person who burned was a pledge — someone who wanted to belong to the organization — does not make it legal, does not make it consensual in any way the law recognizes, and does…

Fraternity Hazing Civil Lawsuit Attorneys: Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida — Four Nights of Beatings with Canes and Paddles, a Federal Agent as Dean of Pledges, Skin Grafts and Near-Fatal Kidney Damage, a Second Victim Intubated, Felony Charges Including Attempted Manslaughter — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University, the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Case, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Invoke Hazing Exclusions, Florida’s Chad Meredith Act Where Consent Is Not a Defense, the Same University Whose 2001 Hazing Death Spurred the Law, We Preserve Group Chats, Charging Documents and Medical Records Before Footage Overwrites and Digital Evidence Is Wiped Remotely, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Miami Fraternity Hazing Injuries: Your Civil Rights When a “Tradition” Becomes Attempted Manslaughter If you are reading this at 2 a.m. from a hospital room in Miami, or from a kitchen table covered in discharge papers you cannot make yourself read, or from a phone you are holding with hands that still shake — we are talking to you. Someone you love, or you yourself, was beaten with canes and paddles over four nights in April 2026 as part of what a Kappa Alpha Psi chapter called its pledging process. One of the people hurt needed skin grafts on his buttocks. His kidneys were failing — the muscle tissue destroyed by repeated blunt-force trauma was releasing proteins into his blood that were poisoning his renal system, and without emergency treatment he would have died. Another victim was intubated. A machine was breathing for him because his body was shutting down. Both of them came close to death. And when the blood finally seeped through one victim’s pants on the fourth night, the fraternity leaders did not call an ambulance. They told both victims to strip and put their clothes in garbage bags. That is not a tradition. It is not…