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Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for the Bezos Courage and Civility AwardsSunny Hostinhusband, Emmanuel “Manny” Hostinnamed in an insurance fraud lawsuit filed in New York City.
According to legal documents obtained by the Daily Mail and are seen by Us Weekly Tuesday, January 7, Emmanuel, who married The Scene co-host in 1998, one of nearly 200 defendants included in the a lawsuit has been filed with the Court of the Eastern District of New York on December 17, 2024.
Listed as “Emmanuel Hostin, MD,” the orthopedic surgeon, based at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West Hospitals in New York, per US Healthis accused of federal insurance fraud and “obtaining kickbacks by performing surgery and … billing a company that insured taxi companies and Uber and Lyft drivers,” as reported by the Daily Mail.
Us have reached out to representatives of Sunny and Emmanuel for comment.
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The lawsuit reads, “Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other health care services including arthroscopic surgeries.” The documents also allege that American Transit’s insurance company was then billed “in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation that was disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.”
Emmanuel addressed the allegations through his attorney Daniel John Thwaitestelling the outlet that his client “denies all allegations.” Thwaites added that the lawsuit is a “blanket, sprawl, worthless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.”
Thwaites further offered, “It is meant to scare and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit’s insureds and their passengers. 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 restrict and limit health care benefits for its insureds and their passengers, and eliminate its proper obligations.”
Emmanuel and Sunny, 56, live in Purchase, New York, and share two children — a son, Gabe, born in 2002, and a daughter, Paloma, born in 2006.
Sunny Hostin has an unshakable bond with her two children, but even she looks back on motherhood with some regret. In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, The View co-host, 55, said she would have done one thing differently in her parenting journey. “We’ll take more pictures,” Hostin explained. “I would say to myself, (…)
Sunny, a multi-platform attorney and journalist joined The Scene as a full-time co-host in 2016, has been honest about the various troubles her family have seen over the years. In January 2021, it was revealed that Emmanuel’s parents had both died of COVID-19 a few weeks earlier.
“While I have chosen a very public career, as most of you know, those of you who know my husband, Manny, know that he is extremely private. But after talking to him, he felt it was very important from a public health perspective for me to share that we are very sad that Manny lost both of his parents over the holidays,” Sunny said on The Scene at the time.
Sunny added that his in-laws, Dr. Mary Jesus a A. Emmanuel“they were both doctors and they were both very careful” and “didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving with us because we all decided it wasn’t safe. And after a lot of contact tracing, we still don’t know how they contracted this virus and this disease. “
According to the filing, American Transit is seeking at least $450 million in damages. Attorney for the company, William Natbonyby the Daily Mail“‘No fault fraud is a huge problem in New York. American Transit filed a lawsuit as part of its statutory responsibility to combat such fraud.”
