Sunny Hostin is fighting back against an insurance company that accused her husband of insurance fraud.
“The View” co-host and her husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, threatened a lawsuit seeking $5 million against the insurance company.
In court documents, obtained by Page Six, American Transit Insurance Company sued Dr. Hostin for allegedly committing federal insurance fraud by filing fraudulent claims.
In a letter seen by Page Six, Hostin’s lawyer Mark Geragos called the lawsuit against Dr. Hostin “completely baseless and without any factual support.” He said the Hostins threatened to countersue for $5 million if the plaintiffs don’t withdraw the suit.
Geragos called the lawsuit’s accusations “false and defamatory allegations.”
Sunny Hostin made blog headlines after the insurance company filed a lawsuit against Dr. Hostin and 200 other individuals in New York.
The lawsuit alleges that the doctor “knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries.”
The suit alleged that Dr. Hostin saw 2 car accident patients who had minor “soft tissue injuries.” But Dr. Hostin allegedly filed claims for arthroscopic surgery on both patients.
Additionally the doctor is accused of billing American Transit “in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions,” according to the suit.
But Mark Geragos hit back in a letter, accusing the company of “unscrupulous tactics,” and warned that “Dr. Hostin and his family will not be intimidated.”
The letter further accuses the insurance company of waging “a public media smear campaign in the press to harass and defame Dr. Hostin, his wife and their children by attempting to weaponize his wife’s celebrity.”
The Hostins have 2 children together. Sunny Hostin earned her law degree from Notre Dame Law School. And she previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C.
