A 73-year-old man working on his farm near Antelope, Montana was crushed to death after being injured while working on the hoist of a grain truck. Walter C. Nelson was found by a contractor who came to clean grain. Coroner David G. Fulkerson believed that Nelson died of crushing chest injuries after the grain truck fell on him. The sheriff’s office is still investigating the accident.
Scott Zeilinski came into Nick’s Short Shop Party Store in Detroit wearing a mask and waiving a knife around, which he reportedly held to the employees’ throats while threatening to kill them. After taking cash and cigarettes, he started to exit the store still making threats. One of the clerks grabbed a gun and shot Zeilinski twice.
Zeilinski, who is currently serving an 8 to 22 year sentence, has filed a suit demanding upwards of $125,000 for his pain, suffering, and emotional distress. This is the sort of person who gives personal injury plaintiffs a bad name. The vast majority of victims who file accident claims are honest people who have been injured by someone else and suffered a loss because of it. My job, as a Montana Injury Lawyer, is to help those people get back what they’ve lost. One of the toughest hurdles in my job is overcoming the public perception that many injury plaintiffs are just like Mr. Zeilinski. Luckily, most of us know someone who has been injured by a careless driver in a car accident, or seriously injured because of someone else’s negligence. And we know that everyone who gets hurt isn’t like Mr. Zeilinski.
