Sunny Hostin‘s husband, Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin, is going through authorized bother as he’s one among nearly 200 defendants named in a sweeping insurance coverage fraud lawsuit.
In accordance with authorized paperwork filed with the New York Jap District Courtroom on December 17, 2024, and obtained by the Every day Mail, orthopedic surgeon Emmanuel and his observe, Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports activities Medication, are among the many 180 defendants listed within the lawsuit.
The go well with accuses Emmanuel and others of insurance coverage fraud, claiming they obtained “kickbacks by performing surgical procedure and… billing an organization that insured taxi corporations and Uber and Lyft drivers.”
“Hostin knowingly offered fraudulent medical and different healthcare providers together with arthroscopic surgical procedures,” the lawsuit claims, per the Every day Mail, including that insurance coverage agency American Transit was then billed “in alternate for kickbacks and/or different compensation which have been disguised as dividends or different money distributions.”
Emmanuel’s legal professional, Daniel Thwaites, advised the outlet that his consumer denies all allegations, calling the submitting a “blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance coverage service.”
“It’s meant to intimidate and harass medical doctors from amassing for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,” Thwaites acknowledged. “The true story right here is about an insurance coverage service abusing the authorized system to restrict and prohibit well being care advantages to its insureds and their passengers and write off its correct obligations.”
Sunny and Emmanuel married in 1998 and share two youngsters, Gabe (22) and Paloma (18). Sunny, an legal professional and long-time co-host on The View, ceaselessly speaks about her husband on the ABC morning present, together with final month when discussing the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“Docs endure due to huge companies as properly, medical doctors that wish to do good like my husband,” Hostin advised her co-hosts, per Fox Information Digital. “[He] operates on somebody despite the fact that they don’t have insurance coverage after which has to sue medical insurance corporations to receives a commission for the work that he’s been skilled his entire life to do.”
Sunny has but to handle the lawsuit towards her husband.