Sunny Hostin jumped to her husband Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin’s protection after he was named as a defendant in an insurance coverage fraud lawsuit. In her assertion, The View co-host slammed American Transit for its “frivolous civil lawsuit” and stated that the corporate solely took authorized motion as a “determined try to keep away from paying for medical and surgical procedures for individuals it insured who have been in ache.”
“This firm has a historical past of submitting frivolous claims, has been investigated by New York State and has been sued by Uber Applied sciences,” Sunny continued in her assertion, obtained by Web page Six. “Nevertheless, in an try to poison the properly of public opinion as a result of it doesn’t have a sound case in opposition to my husband, American Transit as an alternative used my celeb standing to begin a disgusting media smear marketing campaign in opposition to my husband, which included me and our youngsters. They plastered footage of our household throughout tabloid publications.”
She accused the insurance coverage firm of “harassing” her and her household — she and Manny share two grownup youngsters — and insisted that they “stay unbowed” amid the scrutiny. To conclude her assertion, Sunny revealed how she and her husband plan to struggle again in opposition to American Transit.
“Now we have put American Transit on discover and can file a five-million-dollar counter lawsuit for his or her defamatory claims, an quantity that’s prone to improve because the reputational injury that American Transit has deliberately brought on is tough to quantify right now,” she stated. “Additional, we demand that they withdraw these false allegations, pay my husband what he’s owed, and concern a public apology.”
Manny, an orthopedic surgeon, was one in every of 180 defendants named in American Transit’s swimsuit, which was filed on December 17, 2024, within the New York Jap District Court docket. Manny and his apply are accused of receiving “kickbacks by performing surgical procedure and… billing an organization that insured taxi corporations and Uber and Lyft drivers.”
Within the lawsuit, obtained by the Day by day Mail, American Transit claimed, “Hostin knowingly supplied fraudulent medical and different healthcare companies together with arthroscopic surgical procedures. … [American Transit] was billed in trade for kickbacks and/or different compensation which have been disguised as dividends or different money distributions.”
On the time the submitting was made public, Manny’s lawyer known as the lawsuit “meritless” and denied all allegations on behalf of his shopper. “[The lawsuit] is supposed to intimidate and harass medical doctors from amassing for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,” lawyer Daniel Thwaites added. “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.”