The yr 2025 is already shaping as much as be problematic for “The View” host Sunny Hostin and her husband Dr. Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin because of a brand new lawsuit.
Per court docket paperwork just lately obtained by Leisure Weekly on Wednesday, the orthopedic surgeon—who owns Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports activities Drugs—is one in all almost 200 individuals named in a brand new lawsuit that was filed again in Dec. 2024. He stands accused of “knowingly offering fraudulent medical and different healthcare providers together with arthroscopic surgical procedures to Coated Individuals by means of Hostin Orthopaedics that he purportedly carried out.” He additionally allegedly “fraudulently billed” insurance coverage firm plaintiff American Transit “by means of every of these entities in alternate for kickbacks and/or different compensation which had been disguised as dividends or different money distributions.”
American Transit’s grievance comes as a way to come up with New York state’s No-Fault (or Private Damage Safety) legislation, which they argue is operating rampant.
Leisure Weekly has extra on the No-Fault legislation:
In accordance with a government-provided description, No-Fault is “designed to pay promptly, no matter who’s at fault or whether or not there was any negligence, for financial losses (that means medical/well being bills, misplaced earnings, and sure different affordable and needed bills associated to accidents sustained), as much as $50,000 per particular person (‘fundamental No-Fault protection’), to the driving force and all passengers injured in your automobile in addition to any pedestrians injured by your automobile, due to its use or operation in New York State.”
Per the Day by day Mail, Dr. Hostin’s lawyer Daniel Thwaites has since responded to the go well with and mentioned that his shopper “denies each allegation” and described the submitting as a “blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance coverage service.” Thwaites additionally alleged that the grievance was filed with the intent to “intimidate and harass medical doctors from accumulating for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers.”
His assertion continued:
“American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit with out ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any considerations to his legal professionals. The actual story right here is about an insurance coverage service abusing the authorized system to restrict and limit well being care advantages to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its correct obligations.”
Neither Dr. Hostin nor his spouse, Sunny, have responded to the brand new go well with.