Sunny Hostin wants insurance company to apologize for suit

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Sunny Hostin wants insurance company to apologize for suit

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin is defending her husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, after he was accused of committing federal insurance fraud.

The couple hired legal eagle Mark Geragos last week, we reported, and now Hostin is speaking out against American Transit, the insurance company.

Sunny Hostin slammed an insurance company that filed a lawsuit against her husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin. Getty Images
Hostin accused the insurance company of using her celebrity status on “The View” to launch a “media smear campaign.” ABC via Getty Images

Hostin released the following statement to Page Six:

Last month, American Transit, an insurance company on the verge of bankruptcy, filed a frivolous civil lawsuit against my husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, and approximately  200 other doctors in a desperate attempt to avoid paying for medical and surgical  procedures for people it insured who were in pain. This company has a history of filing frivolous claims, has been investigated by New York State and has been sued by Uber Technologies.  

However, in an attempt to poison the well of public opinion because it does not have a valid case against my husband, American Transit instead used my celebrity status to start a disgusting media smear campaign against my husband, which included me and our children. They plastered pictures of our family all over tabloid publications.  

American Transit is harassing me and my family in a frantic attempt to not pay its bills. Our family will not be intimidated and harassed. We remain unbowed.  

I have retained Mark Geragos as our attorney. My husband is also represented by Daniel Thwaites of Thwaites, Lundgren & D’Arcy an Oxford University Law School graduate, Rhodes Scholar and an expert in Civil Rico defense. We have put American Transit on notice and will file a five-million-dollar counter lawsuit for their defamatory claims, an amount that is likely to increase as the reputational damage that American Transit has intentionally caused is difficult to quantify at this time. Further, we demand that they  withdraw these false allegations, pay my husband what he is owed and issue a public apology.  

Insurance companies like American Transit make an already broken healthcare system nearly impossible for Americans to navigate and get good healthcare by engaging in despicable tactics like harassing doctors.  

Let me be clear, where I come from, American Transit will receive a PHD from FAFO University.”

Hostin accused American Transit of harassing her family by filing the suit. sunny/Instagram
Hostin’s husband is one of 200 doctors named in American Transit’s lawsuit. Getty Images

Over the weekend, Geragos sent a letter to American Transit’s lawyers, threatening to countersue for $5 million if the company did not withdraw its case and issue an apology.

Sunny’s husband is one of 200 doctors named in American Transit’s lawsuit alleging that the doc “knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries.”

His lawyer, Daniel Thwaites, previously blasted the allegations as a “blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.”

The Bronx native warned: “Let me be clear, where I come from, American Transit will receive a PHD from FAFO University.” The View/ABC

On Sunday, a lawyer representing American Transit — William Natbony of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft — told Page Six in response:

“American Transit commenced its lawsuit as part of its statutory responsibility to fight no-fault fraud which is rampant in New York.

The allegations of the Complaint speak for themselves. With respect to any allegations by any defendant as to improper conduct by American Transit or its counsel, such assertions are emphatically denied as without basis.” 

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