LSU fraternity pledge's family awarded $6.1 million for his hazing-related death

A jury's decision that a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge's family is entitled to $6.1 million for his hazing-related alcohol death in 2017 sends a powerful message, the family's attorney said Monday.

Max Gruver, from the Atlanta suburb of Roswell, Georgia, had been at LSU for only a month when he died of alcohol poisoning and aspiration after a hazing ritual at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house in 2017.

One of the family's attorneys, Don Cazayoux, said last week's verdict in Baton Rouge bolsters the family's campaign against hazing.