Pennsylvania Personal Injury

Jul 22, 2026

Judge seeks list of remaining defendants as Piazza family’s hazing lawsuit nears trial – WJAC

State College Hazing Wrongful Death: The Fraternity Lawsuit Approaching Trial in Centre County The call came at night, or it came in the morning, or it came while you were at work — but it came, and everything after it is divided into before and after. Your son, your brother, your grandson went to a fraternity event at college and did not come back. Or he came back changed, injured, broken in ways the hospital could describe but not undo. You are reading this page because you need to know what can be done about it, and you need to know now, while the evidence still exists and the deadline has not passed. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, including fraternity and sorority hazing litigation. One of our founders is currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit — that case is in Texas, not this one, but the machinery of a hazing case is the same wherever it is filed: the same defendant structures, the same insurance tactics, the same proof problems, the same human cost. We built this page to give you what we would want if…

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Jul 22, 2026

College Hazing Wrongful Death in Lewisburg, PA: Calvin Dickey Jr., 18-Year-Old Bucknell Freshman Lineman with Known Sickle-Cell Trait, Collapsed During 100+ Forced Ups and Downs and Died Two Days Later — Attorney911 Pursues the University and the Athletic Department Behind the Workout, the Institution’s Own NCAA Self-Reports Documenting Prior Conditioning Violations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Video, the Medical-Conditions Spreadsheet and the 911 Recordings Before Footage Overwrites and Witnesses Transfer, Pennsylvania’s Piazza Anti-Hazing Law Civil Remedy, the Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for Two Days of Conscious Suffering, No Damage Caps Against Private Universities, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lewisburg Hazing Death Lawyer: When a University’s Negligence Kills a Student Athlete You sent your child to college to play a sport, and the sport killed him. That is the worst sentence a parent can read, and it is the one that starts every case like this. An 18-year-old freshman lineman arrived at Bucknell University in Lewisburg with a known medical condition — sickle-cell trait — that his coaches had been told about, that his strength coach had looked up on a spreadsheet the very morning of the workout, and that the NCAA has specific written protocols to protect. None of those protections mattered on July 10, 2024, because the man running the practice decided to make the players do approximately a hundred “ups and downs” — fall flat, stand up, repeat — until a young man who should never have been pushed that hard collapsed on the floor and never got up again. Two days later, Calvin Dickey Jr. was dead at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. The Montour County Coroner amended his death certificate to list the manner of death as homicide, with “forced exercise-induced sickle cell crisis” as a substantial factor. The Pennsylvania Attorney General filed criminal…

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Jul 21, 2026

CJ Dickey Hazing Death at Bucknell: Exertional Rhabdomyolysis from 100 Up-Downs Ordered Despite Known Sickle Cell Trait, an 18-Year-Old Freshman Collapsed on His First Day of Football Practice in Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania — Attorney911 Pursues the University and Its Athletic Department in Hazing Wrongful-Death Cases Under the Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Conditioning Protocols, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pull the SCT Training Records, Practice Footage and Athletic Department Communications Before They Are Purged, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the University’s Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Actions With No Caps on Punitive Damages for Reckless Conduct, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Wrongful-Death Filing Deadline Is Approaching — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The First Day That Should Never Have Happened: Hazing, Sickle Cell Trait, and a Death That Was Preventable Your son walked onto a college campus for his first day of football practice. He never walked off. Now a prosecutor has confirmed what you already knew in your bones: his death was not an accident. It was preventable, and someone who knew the danger pushed him through it anyway. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your family is living through something like what happened at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania — or because you are the family of Calvin “CJ” Dickey Jr. and you are trying to understand what the criminal charges filed on July 6, 2026, mean for your civil case — this page is for you. We are Attorney911, a trial firm that takes Pennsylvania hazing and wrongful death cases, working with local counsel where required. We are not your lawyers yet. But we are going to tell you everything we know about how these cases are built, what the law allows, what the evidence shows, and what the university and its insurers are already doing to protect themselves — so that when you do call…

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Jul 21, 2026

Calvin ‘CJ’ Dickey Jr., 18, Dead From Exertional Rhabdomyolysis After Bucknell Football Hazing — Attorney911 Pursues Bucknell University and Its Athletic Program Behind 100 Up-Downs Ordered for a Freshman With Known Sickle Cell Trait, the NCAA SCT Conditioning Protocols That Were Ignored, We Preserve the Training-Room Footage and Compliance Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Pennsylvania’s Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law Creates Civil Remedies Alongside Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Statute of Limitations Is Running From the July 2024 Date of Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pennsylvania College Hazing Death: A Coach, a Known Condition, and a Freshman Who Never Came Home You sent your son to college on a football scholarship. He was eighteen years old, a thousand miles from home, in a small Pennsylvania town along the Susquehanna River where he was supposed to be learning pharmacy and playing the sport he loved. The next call you got was from a hospital. Then, two days later, the call no parent is built to receive. Now you are reading this at two in the morning because you just learned that the coach who ordered the workout that killed your child has been charged with crimes — and you want to know if there is anything left for your family to do. There is. But the window is closing faster than anyone has told you, and the people who owe you answers are counting on you not knowing that. We are Attorney911. We handle wrongful death cases and hazing death lawsuits, and right now we are going to tell you everything we know about what happened to a young man at a Pennsylvania university, what the law allows his family to do about it, and why…

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Jul 21, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of Calvin ‘CJ’ Dickey Jr. at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Litigation to Bear on Colleges That Ignore NCAA Sickle-Cell Trait Protocols, We Pursue the University, Its Athletic Department and the Strength Coach Behind 100 Punishment Up-Downs That Triggered Exertional Rhabdomyolysis in a Freshman Known to Have Sickle-Cell Trait, We Move to Preserve the Training-Room Footage, SCT Testing Records and Internal Communications Before They Disappear, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Wrongful-Death Cases, Pennsylvania’s Antihazing Law and Wrongful-Death Act Provide for Survival Damages Capturing CJ’s Two Days of Conscious Suffering and Punitive Damages for Reckless Indifference to a Known Medical Condition, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Hazing Death: When a Coach Knew the Danger and Imposed It Anyway If you are reading this because your child came home from college practice in an ambulance — or never came home at all — we need you to hear something before anything else on this page: what happened was not an accident. It was not bad luck. It was not “just the risk of playing football.” When a coach is told a player has a medical condition that can kill him under extreme exertion, when that coach receives formal training on exactly what to avoid, and when that coach nevertheless orders 100 punishment exercises on the first day of practice — that is a choice. And when a university employs that coach for six years, gives him the training, and then leaves him alone in a training room with the very athletes the training was meant to protect, that is a system that failed in a way the law has a name for. In Pennsylvania, the name is hazing. And when hazing kills someone, the name for what follows is a wrongful death case. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a…

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Jul 10, 2026

PFAS Forever-Chemical Water Contamination Across Northeast and Northcentral Pennsylvania — Attorney911 Pursues the Sewage-Sludge Generators, Land-Application Contractors and Industrial Dischargers Behind Biosolids That Leached PFAS Into Private Wells and School Drinking Water at 110 Times State Standards, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic-Exposure Cases, We Move to Preserve DEP Well-Testing Data, Sludge Distribution Records and Blood-Serum PFAS Baselines Before the Evidence Degrades, EPA’s 4-Parts-Per-Trillion Drinking-Water Rule and Pennsylvania’s Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act, the Discovery Rule That Tolls the Statute of Limitations Until You Knew Your Water Was Contaminated, Medical Monitoring Recognized Under Pennsylvania Toxic-Exposure Law, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pennsylvania PFAS Water Contamination: If Your Well, Your School, or Your Water System Has Forever Chemicals, You Have Rights — and the Clock Is Already Running You found out because of a letter. Maybe it came from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, telling you that the well water you have been drinking, cooking with, and bathing in for years contains chemicals the federal government only recently decided are dangerous at any level. Maybe it came from your child’s school district, letting you know that the drinking fountains your kid used every day tested at seven and a half times the federal safety limit. Or maybe you heard about the public hearing scheduled at Central Columbia High School on May 11, 2026, and you realized — for the first time — that the water in this community has a problem nobody told you about until now. The letter does not tell you what this means for your health. It does not tell you whether the headaches, the thyroid issues, the years of trying to get pregnant, the cancer diagnosis that came out of nowhere — whether any of it connects to what was in the water. It does not tell…

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Jul 10, 2026

Talc Baby Powder Ovarian Cancer & Wrongful Death in Philadelphia: A Jury Found Johnson & Johnson’s Talc-Based Baby Powder Responsible for Gayle Emerson’s Fatal Ovarian Cancer — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the 176-Case Mass Tort Docket, We Pursue the Manufacturer and Pull Its Internal Testing Records and Marketing Materials That Sold Safety for Decades Without Warning of the Cancer Risk, Asbestos-Contaminated Talc and Perineal Exposure Leading to Fatal Ovarian Cancer, Pennsylvania Strict Products Liability and the Wrongful Death Act With No Statutory Caps on Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Corporate Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims Including Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Statute of Limitations Runs From the Date of Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Philadelphia Jury Says J&J Baby Powder Caused Fatal Ovarian Cancer — What the $250,000 Verdict Means for 176 Pending Families and Yours If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love used Johnson’s Baby Powder for years and then died of ovarian cancer, you already know the question that brought you here. You want to know whether this product caused her cancer, whether the Philadelphia jury verdict you read about applies to your family, and whether the door is still open. We are going to answer all of that, plainly and completely, because the answer to every one of those questions matters more than anything we could say about ourselves. A Philadelphia jury has now formally decided what thousands of families have suspected: Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based baby powder caused a woman’s ovarian cancer, and the company is legally responsible for her death. The jury awarded her family $250,000. That verdict was rendered in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, in a consolidated mass tort docket that currently holds 176 similar lawsuits — 176 families who are waiting for their own day in front of a Philadelphia jury. If your loved one used talc-based baby powder and…

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Jul 10, 2026

Talc Ovarian Cancer Wrongful Death: Gayle Emerson’s Fatal Cancer From Decades of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder — Philadelphia’s First Plaintiff Verdict in the 175-Case Talc Mass Tort After Years of Bankruptcy-Pause Delays, Attorney911 Pursues the Manufacturer and Its Spun-Off Talc Unit Behind Asbestos-Contaminated Products Marketed for Intimate Personal Use, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Corporate Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure Pathology Slides and Tissue Blocks for Mineralogical Analysis of Talc Fiber Burden Before Hospital Retention Policies Purge Them, Pennsylvania Strict Product Liability and the Wrongful-Death Act with Fraudulent Concealment Tolling for Decades of Hidden Asbestos, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and the Limitations Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Philadelphia Talc Verdict: What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because you used Johnson & Johnson baby powder for years — or your mother did, or your sister did — and then the diagnosis came, you already know the question that keeps you awake. You are not asking whether the powder was dangerous. You are asking whether it was this powder. Whether the cancer that took over your life, or took your loved one’s life, traces back to something that sat on a bathroom shelf for decades, something that was supposed to be gentle, something marketed for babies. A Philadelphia jury just answered that question for one family. After three weeks of trial and several days of deliberation, twelve people in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County found Johnson & Johnson liable for the ovarian cancer death of a Philadelphia woman who used its baby powder for decades. The jury awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages — $250,000 total — to her estate. That verdict, in a case called Emerson v. Johnson & Johnson, Case No. 190509334, is the first time a Philadelphia jury has found…

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Jul 10, 2026

Talc Baby Powder Wrongful Death & Ovarian Cancer Litigation: Philadelphia’s First Talc Mass Tort Plaintiff Verdict, Gayle Emerson Used Johnson & Johnson’s Asbestos-Contaminated Baby Powder for 45 Years Before Dying of Ovarian Cancer, a Court of Common Pleas Jury Found the Manufacturer Liable for Failure to Warn, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to These Failure-to-Warn and Fraudulent-Concealment Claims, We Pursue Johnson & Johnson and Its Talc Distribution Chain for Concealing Asbestos Test Results From the FDA Since the 1960s, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Corporate Claims Teams Set Reserves and Deny These Cases, We Preserve the Pathology Slides, Medical Records and Usage-History Evidence Before Retention Periods Expire, Pennsylvania’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Statutes Provide Distinct Remedies With No Statutory Cap on Punitive Damages, 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 the Product You Trusted for Decades Turns Out to Be the Danger — Philadelphia’s First Talc Verdict and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because you used Johnson & Johnson baby powder for years and then heard the word “ovarian cancer” — or because someone you love is gone and you just learned that the powder on the bathroom shelf may have been the reason — we need you to hear something before anything else: a Philadelphia jury has already said this is real. A jury of twelve people in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas sat through three weeks of evidence, deliberated for more than three days, and found that Johnson & Johnson is responsible for a woman’s death from ovarian cancer after she used their talc-based baby powder for more than forty-five years. That verdict is not a lawyer’s argument. It is a finding by ordinary citizens who heard the science, saw the corporate documents, and decided that the company knew and hid the danger. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Pennsylvania cases, and we are writing this…

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Jul 10, 2026

PFAS Forever Chemical Contamination from Pittsburgh International Airport’s AFFF Firefighting Foam in the Montour Run Watershed, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — Toxic Tort Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the AFFF Manufacturers in the National MDL and Pittsburgh International Airport for Stormwater Discharges the Airport Itself Reported at 62,900 ppt, Over 15,000 Times the EPA’s 4 ppt Drinking Water Safety Level, Into a Trout-Stocked Recreational Stream Feeding the Ohio River Drinking Water Supply for Millions, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Airport’s Self-Reported DEP Sampling Data, AFFF Purchase and Training-Drill Records and Blood Serum PFAS Testing Before the Years-Long Serum Half-Life Erodes the Exposure Evidence, PFAS Linked to Prostate, Kidney and Testicular Cancers, Decreased Fertility and Immune Suppression with Pennsylvania’s Medical Monitoring Remedy and Clean Streams Law Citizen Enforcement, the Discovery Rule May Toll the Statute of Limitations Until the Airport’s Sampling Data Was Disclosed, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Allegheny County PFAS Contamination: Your Legal Rights If You Live, Fish, or Recreate Near the Montour Run Watershed You may have found this page because you walk the Montour Trail with your kids. Because you fish the stocked trout in Montour Run. Because your drinking water comes from the Ohio River and you just learned what has been flowing into it. Or because you or someone you love has been diagnosed with kidney cancer, testicular cancer, or a disease that you now suspect came from water you never knew was poisoned. Whatever brought you here, we want you to understand three things before you read any further: the contamination is real and documented at levels that are difficult to fathom, your health concerns are legitimate and backed by peer-reviewed science, and the law gives you tools to protect yourself and your family — if you act before the evidence disappears. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle toxic tort and environmental contamination cases, and we are writing this page as the senior trial attorneys who build these cases — not as a marketing firm, and not as someone who will minimize what you are going through. Everything that…

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