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Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Represents Bereaved Families After Alcohol-Fueled Rituals Like the Gauntlet That Killed Timothy Piazza at Penn State, We Pursue Beta Theta Pi’s National Organization and the Members Who Waited 12 Hours to Call 911 While He Bled and Turned Gray, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How National Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, We Secure the Surveillance Footage on Its Overwrite Loop, the GroupMe Messages and Fraternity Compliance Records Before Spoliation, Pennsylvania’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for 12 Hours of Conscious Suffering Under the Timothy Piazza Antihazing Law’s Negligence-per-Se Framework, the Coercive Nature of Hazing Negates the Voluntary-Consumption Defense, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Lawyers You are reading this because something happened to your child at a fraternity in Pennsylvania — or because you are afraid it is about to. Maybe your son came home from a pledge event and could not tell you what went on. Maybe he is in a hospital bed right now and the brothers are telling you it was “just an accident.” Maybe you are grieving, and the university has already sent you a letter of condolence that says nothing about what actually happened inside that house. The news that Congress is moving to pass the Stop Campus Hazing Act tells you one thing the country is finally starting to admit: what happened to your child was not a prank gone wrong. It was a foreseeable, preventable harm that the adults who run these organizations either knew about or should have known about — and the law gives you a way to hold them answerable for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases, including fraternity hazing cases, in Pennsylvania and across the country. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello,…

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: Tim Piazza Died at His Penn State Fraternity After a Hazing Ritual in 2017 — Attorney911 Holds Universities and National Fraternities Accountable When Initiation Traditions Turn Fatal, the Stop Campus Hazing Act Now Amends the Clery Act to Force Disclosure of Hazing Statistics and Organizations Found Responsible, Pennsylvania’s Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing Law Makes Deadly Hazing Rituals a Felony and the Pledging Power Imbalance Overrides Assumption-of-Risk Defenses, We Move to Preserve the Disappearing GroupMe and Snapchat Messages, Security-Camera Footage on a 30-Day Overwrite Loop and University Disciplinary Records Before They Vanish, 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 Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pennsylvania Hazing Lawyer: The Stop Campus Hazing Act Changes Everything — and It Started Here If you are reading this page, you already know the worst version of what a fraternity, a sorority, a band, a team, or a campus organization can do to someone’s child. You may be sitting in a hospital room, or you may be sitting with a death certificate that says “blunt force trauma” or “acute alcohol intoxication” or “asphyxia” when what actually killed your loved one was a ritual — a tradition built on the silence of everyone who came before and the powerlessness of the person it was done to. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we take hazing cases. We currently litigate an active hazing lawsuit. We know what these cases look like from the inside, because we are inside one right now. The federal government just changed the law in a way that directly helps your case. In late December 2024, President Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law — bipartisan legislation that amends the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act for the first time to include hazing as…

Timothy Piazza Hazing Death at Penn State — Pennsylvania Fraternity Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Litigates the National Greek Organizations and University Oversight Failures Behind the Forced-Drink Gauntlet of 18 Drinks in Under Two Hours That Sent a Pledge Down a Basement Staircase, the 12-Hour Delay in Calling 911 That Turned a Treatable Brain Injury Fatal, We Secure the Frat-House CCTV Footage and Social-Media Records Before the Overwrite, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the CGL Carriers Behind National Greek Organizations Value and Deny These Claims, Pennsylvania’s Timothy Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and Wrongful-Death Doctrine With Survival Actions for Conscious Pain and Suffering, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions 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

Pennsylvania Fraternity Hazing Death Lawsuits: Who Pays When a Pledge Dies If you are reading this, your family has lost a child to something that was never an accident. A son who went away to college and never came home because a fraternity decided his life was worth less than a ritual. Maybe you are still in the first hours of knowing, or maybe months have passed and the grief has hardened into a need for answers. Either way, you are in the right place. Here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened was not your child’s fault, it was not a mistake, and the law gives your family tools to hold the people who did it accountable — if you move before the evidence disappears. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We build wrongful death cases against fraternities and the institutions that let them operate. We currently serve as lead counsel in a $10 million-plus hazing lawsuit against a major university fraternity, and we know from the inside how these organizations are structured, how they defend themselves, and where the proof lives. Every page of this analysis is written for one person: you, the…

Timothy Piazza Pennsylvania Hazing Death & Wrongful Death Representation — Attorney911 Holds National Greek Organizations and Security Firms Accountable for Coerced Consumption of 18 Drinks and the Fatal 12-Hour Failure to Render Aid, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Suit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How Claims Machines Undervalue Survival Actions and Conscious Pain and Suffering, We Secure Surveillance Footage and Digital Evidence Before the Overwrite Loop, the Firm Has Recovered $5M+ for TBI and Millions in Wrongful Death Actions, Avvo-Rated Excellent — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at the Fraternity House Was Not an Accident When you sent your son to a university in Pennsylvania, you expected him to find a community, a future, and a career. You did not expect him to be coerced into a “ritual” that ended his life. What happened to Timothy Piazza at the Beta Theta Pi house in State College is a tragedy that has reshaped our state’s laws, but for a family in the middle of this nightmare, “tragedy” is too soft a word. This was a systemic, calculated abandonment. As a trial firm that handles wrongful death cases in Pennsylvania, we look at these events through a cold, forensic lens. We see a 19-year-old engineering student coerced into consuming 18 drinks in less than 90 minutes. We see a series of falls that caused a catastrophic brain injury and a ruptured spleen. But most importantly, we see a 12-hour window where he was left to languish on a couch and in a basement while the people who called themselves his “brothers” did nothing. The recent sentencing of the final fraternity leaders is a form of criminal accountability, but it does not make a family whole. The civil…

College Hazing Wrongful Death & TBI ($5M+ Recovered) — Attorney911 Pursues the Beta Theta Pi National Organization for the Timothy Piazza Incident in Pennsylvania, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice & Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Suit, Holding Fraternities Accountable Under Tim’s Law and the Survival Act for Conscious Pain and Suffering, We Secure the House Security Footage and GroupMe Logs Before the Overwrite Loop, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies These Cases, Millions Recovered for Fatal Student Injuries — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Justice for Families Affected by Pennsylvania College Hazing When you dropped your child off at a university in State College or anywhere across Pennsylvania, you were entrusting their future to an institution that promised a safe environment for growth. Finding out that your child was subjected to a “gauntlet” of forced alcohol consumption, physical abuse, or lethal neglect is a betrayal of the highest order. We know that behind the “secrecy and silence” of fraternity culture lies a machine designed to protect the organization at the cost of your child’s life. In the wake of tragedies like the one at Penn State, Pennsylvania passed some of the strictest laws in the country to stop this cycle. But criminal charges against students aren’t enough to change a system that treats young lives as disposable. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death cases in Pennsylvania because we believe the only way to stop the next death is to make it too expensive for these organizations to let it happen again. Understanding Your Rights Under Pennsylvania’s Anti-Hazing Laws Pennsylvania’s legal framework changed forever in 2018 with the passage of the Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law, commonly known as “Tim’s Law.” This…