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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,201 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 03:13 PM Nov 2019

A $30,000 handbag. A disastrous wine spill. And now, a country club is suing its own waiter.

It all started with a handbag.

Maryana Beyder’s wasn’t just any ordinary bag, though. It was a pink Hermès Kelly clutch, since discontinued by the pricey French fashion house. Beyder’s husband had gifted her the purse, worth $30,000, as a 30th birthday present.

So after a waiter at a posh New Jersey country club spilled some red wine on the luxury handbag last year, the real estate agent sued for negligence, demanding that the Alpine Country Club pay her the eye-popping price of her spoiled handbag.

That lawsuit had already madelocal headlines, but on Monday, the club in Demarest, N.J., responded with a surprising move of its own: It’s now suing its own employee — the waiter who allegedly spilled the wine — in the latest legal development after a dinner gone downhill.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-dollar30000-handbag-a-disastrous-wine-spill-and-now-a-country-club-is-suing-its-own-waiter/ar-BBWDWBd?li=BBnb7Kz

Oh FFS. If you can afford to waste $30,000 on a handbag you probably can afford a new one.

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A $30,000 handbag. A disastrous wine spill. And now, a country club is suing its own waiter. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2019 OP
this will be interesting to watch... Javaman Nov 2019 #1
Insurance company needs to tick a box jberryhill Nov 2019 #7
It sounds like the club didn't have the right insurance sir pball Nov 2019 #16
Ugh. catbyte Nov 2019 #2
A friend of mine in FL talked incessantly about louis-t Nov 2019 #3
And the uber wealthy wonder why they are held in such contempt... hlthe2b Nov 2019 #4
truly catrose Nov 2019 #5
Isn't that the truth. Arkansas Granny Nov 2019 #10
And, if they wonder it aloud, it's to rub it in. Sugar Smack Nov 2019 #14
The Devos family has $40m yacht, Mendocino Nov 2019 #20
It is a pink bag. guillaumeb Nov 2019 #6
It's quite likely wine might be spilled at a restaurant LakeArenal Nov 2019 #8
She assumed the risk and lost. no_hypocrisy Nov 2019 #12
If it only had happened at the factory! Loge23 Nov 2019 #9
Is anything Posh in Jersey? nt benld74 Nov 2019 #11
Couldn't we settle for simply flogging him and sending him to America as an indentured? braddy Nov 2019 #13
Having worked in very posh restaurants sir pball Nov 2019 #15
Who knows, maybe the server has one of those comprehensive homeowner's or renter's policies jberryhill Nov 2019 #19
Old line. A New York street hustler/thief.. Grins Nov 2019 #17
The owner's insurer is trying to flush out the club's insurer jberryhill Nov 2019 #18

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
1. this will be interesting to watch...
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 03:19 PM
Nov 2019

i wonder what the legal argument will be used by the country club? will it remove itself for the responsibility of it's own employee, while that same employee is working for that same employer? if the waiter isn't an independent contractor, I would think the employer would still be on the hook.

sir pball

(4,760 posts)
16. It sounds like the club didn't have the right insurance
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 04:31 PM
Nov 2019

Even a $30K payout for a genuine accident shouldn't raise their premiums that badly...I suspect they effed up and their insurer isn't covering this.

catbyte

(34,454 posts)
2. Ugh.
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 03:20 PM
Nov 2019
Beyder’s handbag is far from the costliest item sold by Hermès. In 2017, one of its purses — made from the hide of a Nile River crocodile, with 18-karat gold buckles and diamond-encrusted strap loops — was sold for about $376,000 at an auction in Hong Kong.

louis-t

(23,297 posts)
3. A friend of mine in FL talked incessantly about
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 03:20 PM
Nov 2019

a Louis Vuitton purse she wanted to buy. $1,500 I think it was. She talked about it every time we spoke. I kept telling her not to buy it. Finally, she bought one. Mere weeks later, she was at the grocery store and left it in the cart while she put her groceries in the car. When she turned back, it was gone.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
14. And, if they wonder it aloud, it's to rub it in.
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 04:22 PM
Nov 2019

Only one of the more disgusting habits of billionaires.

LakeArenal

(28,845 posts)
8. It's quite likely wine might be spilled at a restaurant
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 03:37 PM
Nov 2019

That’s why normal people have insurance riders to cover their pricey possessions.

sir pball

(4,760 posts)
15. Having worked in very posh restaurants
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 04:29 PM
Nov 2019

As in, I've met Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton among others - we had a literal "spill form" that would detail the incident and offer to pay for the cleaning and replacement if necessary. Accidents do happen, but absorbing the cost is good public relations, and if you have a good business insurance policy they'll usually cover it.

On its face this sounds like one of those cases where it's really the insurance companies fighting over which one is going to pay, but I don't see a server having a policy along those lines...this seems like the club is just being a POS and trying to recover their losses, maybe they didn't bother to get that good insurance policy.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
19. Who knows, maybe the server has one of those comprehensive homeowner's or renter's policies
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 05:19 PM
Nov 2019

...with some bizarre blanket personal liability coverage, and it's a three-way insurance company orgy.

Grins

(7,231 posts)
17. Old line. A New York street hustler/thief..
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 04:58 PM
Nov 2019

Guy is wearing a $15,000 Rolex.
Gets robbed.
Thief is caught and asked why he did it.
“You come to town wearing a $15,000 Rolex and you deserve getting robbed!”

Something with a value like that should be covered under THE OWNER’S insurance policy like expensive jewelry or rare paintings.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
18. The owner's insurer is trying to flush out the club's insurer
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 05:18 PM
Nov 2019

Like most lawsuits, this one smells like dueling insurers using the litigants as actors in a play.

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