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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA $30,000 handbag. A disastrous wine spill. And now, a country club is suing its own waiter.
It all started with a handbag.
Maryana Beyders wasnt just any ordinary bag, though. It was a pink Hermès Kelly clutch, since discontinued by the pricey French fashion house. Beyders 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: Its 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.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)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.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)That's all.
sir pball
(4,760 posts)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)louis-t
(23,297 posts)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.
hlthe2b
(102,371 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 12, 2019, 04:23 PM - Edit history (1)
Arkansas Granny
(31,531 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Only one of the more disgusting habits of billionaires.
Mendocino
(7,509 posts)one of twelve.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Dye it red.
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)Thats why normal people have insurance riders to cover their pricey possessions.
no_hypocrisy
(46,191 posts)Loge23
(3,922 posts)It would have sold for $50,000!!
benld74
(9,910 posts)braddy
(3,585 posts)sir pball
(4,760 posts)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)...with some bizarre blanket personal liability coverage, and it's a three-way insurance company orgy.
Grins
(7,231 posts)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 OWNERS insurance policy like expensive jewelry or rare paintings.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Like most lawsuits, this one smells like dueling insurers using the litigants as actors in a play.