The husband of Sunny Hostin, a co-host on the daytime speak present “The View,” is vehemently denying the accusation that he engaged in insurance coverage fraud.
Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, an orthopedic surgeon, intends to file a countersuit towards American Transit Insurance coverage Firm [ATIC], which accuses Hostin and 180 different defendants of committing federal insurance coverage fraud.
This RICO case has been deemed one the biggest of its variety within the historical past of New York State.
Hostin and his spouse Sunny have retained the providers of famend attorneys Mark Geragos and Daniel Thwaites, who’re threatening to file a $5 million swimsuit towards ATIC.
In an announcement obtained by Web page Six, Geragos denounced ATIC’s lawsuit as “fully baseless and with none factual assist,” and can train authorized recourse if ATIC refused to drop the lawsuit and its “false and defamatory allegations.”
Gerogos added that ATIC has orchestrated “a public media smear marketing campaign within the press to harass and defame Dr. Hostin, his spouse and their youngsters by trying to weaponize his spouse’s superstar,” the letter reads.
“Your unscrupulous techniques are well-known within the trade, and Dr. Hostin and his household won’t be intimidated.”
ATIC in its lawsuit, wherein it seeks to recoup $450 million, accuses Hostin and others of billing ATIC “in alternate for kickbacks and/or different compensation which have been disguised as dividends or different money distributions,” based on the swimsuit as The Day by day Mail reported it.
“No-fault fraud is a large downside in New York. American Transit filed a lawsuit as a part of its statutory duty to struggle such fraud,” an legal professional for the corporate instructed the newspaper.
In response, Geragos wrote that he despatched ATIC a letter as a “formal discover that Dr. Hostin, Mrs. Hostin and their youngsters intend to hunt redress for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional misery within the quantity of $5 million for the damages they’ve suffered and proceed to endure on account of the aforementioned defamatory allegations and corresponding smear marketing campaign,” he stated within the letter based on Web page Six.