N.J. country club sues waiter over red
wine spilled on member’s $30K purse
N.J.com,
by
Avalon Zoppo
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
11/12/2019 7:14:12 PM
A Bergen County country club has sued its own employee after a patron filed a lawsuit last month against the club and employee seeking $30,000 for the value of her handbag, which she claims was damaged in a red wine spill, court records show. Maryana Beyder filed the lawsuit against the Alpine Country Club in Demarest alleging an unnamed waiter spilled the drink on her expensive Hermes handbag in September 2018 and that the club is at fault for its hiring practices. The club filed a cross-claim last week against the employee involved in the incident.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jimincalif 11/12/2019 7:29:44 PM (No. 233435)
Law must be different in NJ than in California. Here an employer has to indemnify and protect an employee performing within the scope of their employment. Presumably the server goofed, but serving wine was within the scope of employment. So an employee suing an employee would make no sense as the employer would then have to defend the employee.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 11/12/2019 7:34:45 PM (No. 233448)
hermes is very expensive so is judith lieber bags
i have a acollection of their scarves////
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/12/2019 7:36:11 PM (No. 233451)
This woman will not get $30K.
Hermes bags often are sold for thousands of dollars with the most expensive one currently listed at $13,000 on the Paris-based company’s website.
Beyder’s husband gave the bag to her on her 30th birthday as an investment, Errico said. The bag, she said, is irreplaceable because it has been discontinued.
Errico said her client tried to resolve the issue with the club and its insurance company in a year-long battle, but eventually stopped receiving responses. Finally, Errico said, Beyder was forced to bring the club to court.
It has probably gone on for a long time because Beyder inflated the value of the bag and the insurance company won’t bite. It is quite simply a used bag. That it has been discontinued does not increase its value.
I have never heard of an employer being able to sue an employee for an accident like this one.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/12/2019 7:39:21 PM (No. 233455)
Hopefully she's not a Mafia wife.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Gordon Freeman 11/12/2019 7:47:48 PM (No. 233465)
No.6 that just stupid. What was that saying..." When two fools met, one for offering the price and the other for not taking it."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JL80863 11/12/2019 7:54:25 PM (No. 233468)
It appears that the Country Club management is just as worthless as the handbag owner. It's a shame that anyone has to deal with this slime.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/12/2019 7:56:38 PM (No. 233469)
Call off the dogs! It was all a mistake. As of 7PM tonight EST the club has dropped the suit against its waiter. I have a hunch they found out it was against labor laws… Anyhoo, from another article at NJ.com, the club’s lawyer now says they never intended to sue the waiter. (Which makes me believe they ran afoul of NJ labor law.) It’s over. Now it’s up to the club and this grandstanding woman. Club’s lawyer says it was all a media event. She looks and sounds like a piece of work.
https://www.nj.com/news/2019/11/nj-country-club-drops-waiter-from-suit-over-red-wine-spilled-on-members-30k-purse.html
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HPmatt 11/12/2019 8:12:05 PM (No. 233491)
What did the old bag have to say about all of this???
Reminds me of the great movie - How to Murder Your Wife, with Terri Thomas, Verna Lisi and Jack Lemmon...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 11/12/2019 8:21:54 PM (No. 233498)
The employee is an agent of the employer.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 11/12/2019 8:26:29 PM (No. 233502)
A PURSE as an investment? LOL! What a nut.
Anybody who has a $30K purse needs to just suck it up and stop whining.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/12/2019 8:29:08 PM (No. 233506)
The woman is at fault for being stupid enough to spend 30k on a purse.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ginadee 11/12/2019 8:43:52 PM (No. 233515)
Some folks have more money than brains.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/12/2019 8:52:06 PM (No. 233520)
Here is where Maryana peddles her used designer stuff:
https://poshmark.com/closet/maryanabeyder
No matter what it was, Maryana, it is STILL USED!!!!
No wonder it has taken a year and they finally stopped responding to her...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
snakeoil 11/12/2019 10:39:12 PM (No. 233530)
Boxer Bernard Hopkins like to poke fun at the extravagant spending habits of some over paid athletes. One of my favorites quotes from him: "You've got a Rolex. I've got a Timex. They've got the same time fool." What kind of idiot would pay that much for a bag? A friend of mine who died with millions just sitting in his bank account carried everything is the plastic bags he got from grocery stores. At least this woman has learned in the future to drink white wine.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/12/2019 11:31:06 PM (No. 233559)
Maryana, if you had bought your handbag at Walmart like most women have to do, cost maybe $30. Then you could have used your handbag to help clean up the mess.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Shells 11/12/2019 11:40:08 PM (No. 233565)
Here’s the deal.
Maryana and the Mr. are hard up for cash. Most probably living way beyond their means, keeping up with Judge Smales at the Country Club.
I worked for years in the insurance business covering very wealthy people who, when hard times it, ‘lost’ or damaged scheduled items, covered with no deductible.
Insurance companies know what things cost to replace. Guaranteed they refused her ridiculous number.
The stories I could tell about this subject!
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Do you know what you can buy for $30k ? I have no problem with the uber rich but there are better investments.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/13/2019 2:11:48 AM (No. 233618)
If the bag was THAT valuable, which boggles the mind, and was bought as an investment, AND was irreplaceable, WHAT was that idiot woman doing with it out in PUBLIC instead of keeping it in a safe?! Shoot! Why didn't you take it to the movies, too, so they could slather it with popcorn butter!?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Trigger2 11/13/2019 4:14:09 AM (No. 233647)
So now even 'accidents' are required lawsuits. If this dame can afford a $30,000 purse, then she can afford to replace it with her own money. Who does she think she is? Oh wait, I know, a demonrat seeking to line her pockets with more money no matter who she gets it from and I can say the same about the hoity toity Country Club.
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Where do we draw the line on abuses against honest citizens? Remand the waiter to indentured servitude until he works off his transgression, or barring that, throw the rascal in debtor’s prison.