(Medal of Freedom awardee) Tiger, girlfriend named in wrongful death lawsuit

[underpants]

Tiger Woods, restaurant manager Erica Herman, who is Woods' girlfriend, and The Woods restaurant in Jupiter, Florida, are being sued for the wrongful death of an employee, who after working a shift in December drank alcohol at the restaurant before being killed in a car crash.

Nicholas Immesberger had a blood alcohol reading of .256

Immesberger was a bartender at The Woods, and the suit alleges that Woods, Herman and other employees were aware that Immesberger had a drinking problem but regularly overserved him during and after his work shifts.

The lawsuit alleges that Woods and Herman were "drinking with him at The Woods bar only a few nights before the fatal crash of December 10, 2018.''

http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/26740827/tiger-girlfriend-named-wrongful-death-lawsuit

[Maine-i-acs]

1. I smell a pardon! (orange scented). nt

further subtext unnecessary

[Ilsa]

14. I don't think a pardon would be available (not federal).

Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[treestar]

16. Correct, plus it is a civil suit

seeking damages, not a criminal case.

[Maine-i-acs]

18. then a flurry of tweets to his defense will begin

sounds like another witch hunt underway. watch the oranges of this one. the oranges, oranges.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. This wouldn't work in Kansas.

Court: Kansas bars can't be sued by drunken driving victims
Associated Press
Posted 21 hrs ago

KANSAS CITY, KS (AP) -- The Kansas Supreme Court says victims injured by drunken drivers can't sue the bars that served them.

KCUR-FM reports that the high court's ruling on Friday comes in the case of Jeff Kudlacik, who was placed in a medically induced coma and faced months of rehabilitation following a car accident involving a drunken driver in 2015.

The driver who hit Kudlacik, Michael Smith, had a blood alcohol content of nearly 0.18, which is more than twice the legal level of impairment in Kansas.

Kudlacik sued the two bars that served Smith before the accident. ... But the Supreme Court says it's bound by a 1985 case that found Kansas doesn't have a law allowing victims of drunken driving accidents to hold alcohol vendors accountable for their patrons. ... The court says it's up to the Legislature to change the rule.

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Sounds like the Kansas SC doesn't know what courts are for.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

4. Kansas needs to get on it!

Tiger's insurance should pay up.

.2 is a huge amount of alcohol.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. That's a warning to stay off the roads in Kansas after 5PM as drivers can be drunk AF.

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The nefarious side hints that LEOs love this law, as they can stake out a bar and nail drunkards that would have been flagged in other states, but are allowed to get completely shitfaced before hitting the road.

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[Baitball Blogger]

6. Florida has a drinking problem.

[rsdsharp]

7. I'm assuming, since the article doesn't explicitly say,

that Tiger Woods owns the restaurant. Otherwise, I can see no basis for him to be named in a dram shop case.

[FakeNoose]

8. The AP article says that Woods is the owner

His lady-friend is the executive manager of the bar/restaurant. They are both being sued by the parents. I never understand in these cases, why don't the bar owners sue the parents for raising an alcoholic son?

[rsdsharp]

10. Thank you.

Sadly, the ESPN article was silent on that point. I guess you were just supposed to intuit his ownership from the name of the restaurant.

[madinmaryland]

15. The parents see a HUGE settlement from Woods.

$100 million maybe. I’m sure it will be settled for far less. Money buys lawyers.

[yellowcanine]

9. Wait, the guy was an adult, right? Sorry, parents, but your son killed himself.

No one forced your son to get drunk and then get into a car and drive drunk. Your son did that. Own it.

[MH1]

11. Isn't there a law against serving alcohol to the obviously intoxicated?

If they broke the law by serving alcohol to the guy, they broke the law.

There's probably a reasonable case to be made for culpability even if there isn't a law, if the guy was shitfaced and everyone could see it.

It's well known that after a few drinks (sometimes even one), some people lose the capacity for making the decision to cut themselves off, or to not drive.

Meanwhile, the business owner is supposed to be responsible, not under the influence themselves, and have no excuse for the poor decision to continue serving more poison to someone who is at risk of killing themselves or someone else.

The lack of empathy for addiction here, is somewhat surprising to me.

[FakeNoose]

12. The victim was an employee at the bar - he served himself

He's also an alcoholic according to the AP story, so the owner (Tiger Woods) made a mistake in hiring the wrong person. But it's not the bar owner's fault that the guy got himself drunk and then drove a car. Tiger Woods isn't this kid's parent.

[Johonny]

13. Tiger apparently destroyed evidence as well.

[underpants]

17. Your post intrigued and I found this on ESPN

"One of the most significant issues we have here is the destruction of evidence," attorney Spencer Kuvin said Tuesday. "Obviously it shows that somebody knew something had gone wrong and they wanted to get rid of that evidence. We have evidence to show that that videotape, showing Nick at the bar that night after he got off at 3 p.m., drinking for three hours at the bar, was destroyed shortly after the crash had occurred.

"So we have through our investigation uncovered evidence to show that the bar knew what happened, they knew about the crash that night and shortly thereafter that video evidence was destroyed and deleted off the servers they had there at The Woods."

[former9thward]

19. No evidence of that.

Do you really think Tiger Woods was sitting around destroying video tape evidence? There may of been some manager doing that but Woods would have had no knowledge of that. Of course on the internet evidence is not needed.