Ohio Personal Injury

Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio: Attorney911 Fights for Families of Students Killed in Alcohol-Based Initiation Rituals — Savanna Jones, 18, Dead After the Turtles’ Crossing Required a Full Bottle of Liquor in a Henderson Hall Dorm Room While Resident Assistants Watched, We Pursue the University That Marketed Itself as Dry While Its Staff Failed to Intervene, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Hazing Deaths, We Preserve the Dorm Footage, Her Text Messages Warning Friends She Was Scared and the Circulated Photo of an Unconscious Freshman Before They Disappear, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy Under Collin’s Law and the State’s Wrongful-Death Act With No Statutory Damages Cap, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Wilberforce University Hazing Death: Ohio Law, Institutional Liability, and What Families Need to Know An 18-year-old freshman should be preparing for her sophomore year. She should be texting her bandmates about fall rehearsal, moving into a dorm room, calling home about classes she picked. Instead her family is standing over a grave, holding a death certificate, and reading the word “hazing” in a lawsuit filed against the university that promised to keep her safe. That gap — between what a family was promised and what happened inside a residence hall at Wilberforce University in Greene County, Ohio — is where this case lives. We are Attorney911, and we handle hazing wrongful death cases. What follows is the deepest legal and factual analysis we can give you of what happened, what Ohio law allows, what the evidence shows, and what a family can do — because every day that passes, the proof is disappearing. What Happened at Wilberforce University: The Turtles, the Crossing Ritual, and the Hours That Followed An 18-year-old freshman at Wilberforce University, a member of the Hounds of Sound marching band, died on April 30, 2026, after an alcohol-based hazing ritual tied to an unofficial student group known…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha and the National Fraternity Oversight Structure Behind the Local Chapter, the University That Knew of Hazing Traditions and Failed to Enforce Its Own Anti-Hazing Policy, Alcohol Poisoning From a Coercive Bottle-Finish Pledge Ritual That Left a 20-Year-Old on Life Support for Three Days, We Pull the Fraternity Group Chats, University Enforcement Records and Toxicology Findings Before Witnesses Graduate and Messages Vanish, Eight Criminal Convictions That Lock In Civil Liability, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act and Anti-Hazing Law With the Comparative-Fault Defense Reframed Through the Coercive Power Imbalance of Pledging, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Deaths, the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Hazing Death: How a Fraternity Tradition Killed a 20-Year-Old — and How the Law Holds Every Layer Accountable If you are reading this page, someone you love has been hurt or killed by a fraternity tradition that was never an accident. Maybe your son is in an ICU right now. Maybe you are planning a funeral for a child who went to college to learn and died trying to join a club. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a letter from a university lawyer who says the school “actively enforced” its anti-hazing policy and that the lawsuit is “meritless.” That word — “meritless” — is a litigation posture, not a moral judgment. The fact that a settlement followed tells you what the institution really knew. What happened at Bowling Green State University in March 2021 is not a mystery. A 20-year-old student from Delaware, Ohio, attended a fraternity initiation event where the tradition was for new members to finish — or attempt to finish — a bottle of alcohol. He was found unconscious after members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity dropped him off at his apartment. He died three days…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Critical on Life Support After Alleged Pi Kappa Alpha Alcohol Hazing at a BGSU Off-Campus Event in Bowling Green, Ohio — 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 Local Chapter and the Individual Members Behind Coerced Alcohol Consumption During Pledging, We Move to Preserve Group Chats, Snapchat Messages and Witness Statements Before They Auto-Delete Within 24 Hours, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy and Social Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to Persons Under 21, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Hazing: What Happened at BGSU and What Ohio Law Lets a Family Do About It Your son is on life support. The national fraternity put out a statement saying he was dead before he was dead — and then had to retract it. You are standing in a hospital hallway in Bowling Green while reporters call your phone and fraternity members you have never met are already deleting their group chats. You do not know what happened inside that off-campus house on March 4. You do know your son went in alive and came out on a ventilator. Everything else is what they are telling you — and what they are erasing. We are going to tell you what Ohio law actually gives a family in this moment, what evidence is being destroyed while you read this, and what the people responsible are already doing to protect themselves. None of it is theoretical. We currently litigate a hazing case — Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi, a $10 million lawsuit against a University of Houston fraternity — and the machinery of a hazing case is the same whether the chapter is in Harris County, Texas, or Wood…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University That Knew, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Fraternity Communications, University Hazing Records and Criminal Convictions Before Witnesses Graduate and Messages Vanish, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and Collin’s Law, Acute Alcohol Poisoning and Coercive Pledging Dynamics That Refute the Voluntary-Consumption 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

Bowling Green Fraternity Hazing Death: How Ohio Law Holds Universities and Fraternities Accountable If you are reading this page, you may be sitting at a kitchen table in Bowling Green, or in Delaware, Ohio, or somewhere along the I-75 corridor between Toledo and home, trying to understand how a fraternity initiation event ended with your child hospitalized or gone. You may have just learned that a tradition of new members being expected to consume a full bottle of alcohol at a fraternity event — a tradition the university’s own investigation later documented — led to acute alcohol poisoning, three days on life support, and a death that did not have to happen. Here is the first thing you need to know, and it is the thing the fraternity and the university are counting on you not understanding: the evidence that proves what really happened inside that house is dying faster than the legal deadline to file a claim. Ohio gives you two years from the date of death to bring a wrongful death action. But the text messages between fraternity members, the group chats where the event was organized, the witness accounts from pledges who were there — students graduate,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha’s National Organization and the University’s Negligent Supervision of Greek-Life Hazing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Deaths, We Preserve Fraternity Communications, University Conduct Board Files, and Toxicology Evidence Before Witnesses Graduate and Records Are Purged, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act and Collin’s Law Anti-Hazing Framework, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night That Should Never Have Happened: Bowling Green’s Hazing Death and What It Means for Every Family If you are reading this page, you are probably in one of two places. Either you have lost someone to a hazing incident at a college or university in Ohio, and you are trying to understand whether what happened to your child was a tragedy or a crime — or both. Or you are a parent whose child survived a hazing event and you are only now learning how close you came to the phone call the Foltz family received in March of 2021. Either way, you are here because something broke, and you need to know whether the people who let it break can be held accountable. They can. We are going to tell you exactly how, and exactly what the law in Ohio gives your family the power to do about it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases in Ohio and across the country, and we currently lead active hazing litigation against a university and a national fraternity. We know what these cases look like…

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Jul 22, 2026

Stone Foltz Hazing Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio: A 20-Year-Old BGSU Pledge Forced to Drink a Liter of Bourbon at a Pi Kappa Alpha Ritual, Three Days in a Coma, Fatal Alcohol Poisoning — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Insurer Behind These Initiation Rituals, 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, We Secure the Fraternity Communications, National Risk-Management Files and Criminal Conviction Records Before They Are Purged, Ohio’s Collin’s Law and Wrongful-Death 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

When They Said “We’ll Take Care of Him” — The Night That Killed Your Son at Bowling Green Your child went to college to learn. He joined a fraternity to belong. He was told to drink a liter of bourbon, and he was told that the young men handing it to him would take care of him. Then they watched him lose consciousness, and they did nothing that mattered in time to save his life. He spent nearly three days in a coma on a ventilator while you stood at his bedside, and on March 7, 2021, he died from alcohol poisoning in a hospital in Ohio — killed by a ritual that has a name, that has a law against it, and that has been killing college students for generations. We need you to hear this first: your son’s death was not his fault. He was a 20-year-old sophomore who wanted what every 20-year-old wants — community, belonging, a place in the world. The system that killed him exploited that desire, and the law in Ohio now says exactly that. What happened to your child in Bowling Green was not an accident, not a prank gone wrong, not “kids…

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Jul 22, 2026

Wilberforce University Hazing Death of Savanna Jones: Forced to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor in a Henderson Hall Dorm Room While Resident Assistants Watched and Did Nothing — Attorney911 Holds the University and Its Housing Officials Accountable Under Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Law, We Preserve the Dorm Surveillance Footage, the Circulated Photo of an Unconscious 18-Year-Old, and Every Participant’s Text Messages Before They Are Deleted, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ohio’s Comparative-Fault Rule Does Not Shield Those Who Watched a Dying Student and Failed to Call 911 — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at Wilberforce University: A Freshman’s Death and the Law That Was Built to Answer It If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. An 18-year-old who should be finishing her first year of college is not coming home. And the reason she is not coming home is not an accident, not a random tragedy, and not something nobody could have foreseen. It was a ritual. It was organized. It happened inside a university dormitory. And people who were paid to keep students safe watched it happen and did nothing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Ohio hazing and wrongful-death cases, and we are writing this page for one person: the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table in the middle of the night, reading everything they can find, trying to understand what happened at Wilberforce University and what they can do about it. If that is you, here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened to your family was not her fault. She was 18 years old. She texted a friend that she was scared before the ritual began. The law…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio: Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities Like Pi Kappa Alpha Accountable When Forced-Alcohol Initiation Rituals Turn Fatal, Stone Foltz, a BGSU Sophomore, Died Three Days After a Hazing Event at a Pi Kappa Alpha Initiation Where He Was Made to Drink Alcohol and Was Kept Alive for Organ Donation, Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Remedy, Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for His Three Days of Conscious Suffering, We Secure the Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Reports Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit Against a National Fraternity, 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

Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Hazing Death: What the Family of a Hazing Victim Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in a fraternity hazing incident at Bowling Green State University — or anywhere in Ohio — you are in a moment that no family should ever have to live through. You are standing in the wreckage of a promise that was made to your child and broken in the worst way possible. A university was supposed to educate them. A fraternity was supposed to brotherhood them. Instead, an organization that publishes words like “zero-tolerance” let a ritual built on coerced alcohol consumption take your child’s life. We are going to tell you the truth about what happened, what the law says about it, and what you can do — because the truth is the one thing the fraternity’s lawyers are already working to make sure you never fully hear. Hazing is not an accident. It is not a tradition that went too far. It is a preventable act of organizational recklessness, and Ohio law gives families specific civil remedies to hold the people who permitted it fully accountable. My…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Stone Foltz, a BGSU Sophomore, Died of Alcohol Poisoning After an Off-Campus Hazing Ritual Near Bowling Green, Ohio in Which Pledges Were Told to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor — Attorney911 Pursues Pi Kappa Alpha’s National Organization Behind the Local Chapter and the Public University Whose Anti-Hazing Enforcement Duties Were at Issue, 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 Insider, We Preserve Fraternity Communications, University Greek-Life Oversight Records and Hospital Toxicology Before They Are Deleted or Purged, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Sovereign-Immunity Framework That Governs Public-University Hazing Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Hazing Death: How a $10 Million Settlement Was Built — and What It Means for Every Family Facing the Same Fight If your child came home from a fraternity event and didn’t come back — or if you’re reading this because someone else’s child didn’t — you already know that the hardest part isn’t understanding what happened. It’s understanding how so many people and institutions let it happen, and whether the law can hold any of them accountable. It can. Ohio has a statute written specifically for this. The settlements in the Bowling Green case — more than $10 million from the university, the national fraternity, and the individuals who organized the ritual — prove that the system that failed your child can be made to answer for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death cases, and we are currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity. We know this fight because we are in it. What follows is everything the law, the medicine, and the evidence teach us about a fraternity hazing death in Ohio — written for the person who needs…

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Jul 22, 2026

Ursuline High School Hazing & Sexual Abuse Lawsuit: Youngstown Federal Case Against the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown Alleges Football Program Culture of Filmed Assaults Dating to 2022, Principal Accused of Telling Students to Destroy Evidence — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Avvo “Excellent” 8.2 Rating to Hazing and Sexual-Abuse Cases Against Private Catholic Schools and the Dioceses Behind Them, We Secure the Videos, Administrator Communications and Internal Investigation Records Before They Are Destroyed, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Religious-Institution Claims Teams Value and Deny These Cases, Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Cause of Action and Mandatory-Reporter Doctrine, Federal Child-Exploitation Statutes for Recordings of Minors, the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing-Institutional Liability Case, $50M+ Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the School You Trusted Fails Your Child: The Ursuline Hazing Lawsuit You are sitting at your kitchen table at two in the morning, and you just read the headline. A second former Ursuline High School football player has joined a federal lawsuit alleging a culture of hazing and sexual abuse going back to at least 2022. The attorney for the victims says his office has more than a dozen videos of players filming the abuse of multiple teammates. And the allegation that stops your heart: when the principal was presented with videos of assault and child pornography, his response was to tell students to destroy the evidence and keep quiet. Your child played football at Ursuline. Or your child is there now. Or your child knows someone on that team. And the question that is keeping you awake is the one no parent should ever have to ask: was my child one of them — and who is going to be held accountable for what happened? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes catastrophic injury and institutional accountability cases, and right now we are lead counsel in an active hazing…

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