The husband of Sunny Hostin, a co-host on the daytime talk show “The View,” is vehemently denying the accusation that he engaged in insurance fraud.
Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, an orthopedic surgeon, intends to file a countersuit against American Transit Insurance Company [ATIC], which accuses Hostin and 180 other defendants of committing federal insurance fraud.
This RICO case has been deemed one the largest of its kind in the history of New York State.
Hostin and his wife Sunny have retained the services of renowned attorneys Mark Geragos and Daniel Thwaites, who are threatening to file a $5 million suit against ATIC.
In a statement obtained by Page Six, Geragos denounced ATIC’s lawsuit as “completely baseless and without any factual support,” and will exercise legal recourse if ATIC refused to drop the lawsuit and its “false and defamatory allegations.”
Gerogos added that ATIC has orchestrated “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 letter reads.
“Your unscrupulous tactics are well known in the industry, and Dr. Hostin and his family will not be intimidated.”
ATIC in its lawsuit, in which it seeks to recoup $450 million, accuses Hostin and others of billing ATIC “in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions,” according to the suit as The Daily Mail reported it.
“No-fault fraud is a huge problem in New York. American Transit filed a lawsuit as part of its statutory responsibility to fight such fraud,” an attorney for the company told the newspaper.
In response, Geragos wrote that he sent ATIC a letter as a “formal notice that Dr. Hostin, Mrs. Hostin and their children intend to seek redress for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress in the amount of $5 million for the damages they have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of the aforementioned defamatory allegations and corresponding smear campaign,” he said in the letter according to Page Six.
