The year 2025 is already shaping up to be problematic for βThe Viewβ host Sunny Hostin and her husband Dr. Emmanuel βMannyβ Hostin thanks to a new lawsuit.
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Per court documents recently obtained by Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, the orthopedic surgeonβwho owns Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports Medicineβis one of nearly 200 people named in a new lawsuit that was filed back in Dec. 2024. He stands accused of βknowingly providing fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries to Covered Persons through Hostin Orthopaedics that he purportedly performed.β He also allegedly βfraudulently billedβ insurance company plaintiff American Transit βthrough each of those entities in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.β
American Transitβs complaint comes as a means to get a hold of New York stateβs 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 βdesigned 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 (βbasic No-Fault coverageβ), 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.β
Per the Daily Mail, Dr. Hostinβs lawyer Daniel Thwaites has since responded to the suit and said that his client βdenies each and every allegationβ and described the filing as a βblanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.β Thwaites also alleged that the complaint was filed with the intent to βintimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers.β
His statement continued:
βAmerican 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.β
Neither Dr. Hostin nor his wife, Sunny, have responded to the new suit.
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