The year 2025 is already shaping up to be problematic for “The View” host Sunny Hostin and her husband Dr. Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin thanks to a new lawsuit.
Per court documents recently obtained by Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, the orthopedic surgeon—who owns Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine—is one of nearly 200 people named in a new lawsuit that was filed back in Dec. 2024. He stands accused of “knowingly providing fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries to Covered Persons through Hostin Orthopaedics that he purportedly performed.” He also allegedly “fraudulently billed” insurance company plaintiff American Transit “through each of those entities in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.”
American Transit’s complaint comes as a means to get a hold of New York state’s No-Fault (or Personal Injury Protection) law, which they argue is running rampant.
Entertainment Weekly has more on the No-Fault law:
According to a government-provided description, No-Fault is “designed to pay promptly, regardless of who is at fault or whether there was any negligence, for economic losses (meaning medical/health expenses, lost earnings, and certain other reasonable and necessary expenses related to injuries sustained), up to $50,000 per person (‘basic No-Fault coverage’), to the driver and all passengers injured in your car as well as any pedestrians injured by your car, because of its use or operation in New York State.”
Per the Daily Mail, Dr. Hostin’s lawyer Daniel Thwaites has since responded to the suit and said that his client “denies each and every allegation” and described the filing as a “blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.” Thwaites also alleged that the complaint was filed with the intent to “intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers.”
His statement continued:
“American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers. The real story here is about an insurance carrier abusing the legal system to limit and restrict health care benefits to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its proper obligations.”
Neither Dr. Hostin nor his wife, Sunny, have responded to the new suit.