Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, a highly respected orthopedic and sports medicine specialist in New York and husband to The View’s Sunny Hostin, is fighting back against what his legal team calls unfounded fraud allegations brought by American Transit,

The Hostins blasted the lawsuit as “baseless” and could seek $5 million in damages in a potential countersuit, their lawyer says.

"We have put American Transit on notice and will file a five-million-dollar counter lawsuit for their defamatory claims," Hostin said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin responded to the insurance fraud allegations facing her husband on Tuesday, arguing the company who filed the lawsuit had a history of frivolous claims.

Dr. Hostin was accused in a Dec. 17, 2024 suit filed by American Transit of getting “kickbacks” for surgeries and fraudulently billing the company, which insures taxi companies, Uber and Lyft drivers, among others. He is one of 200 defendants named in the suit.

The year 2025 is already shaping up to be problematic for “The View” host Sunny Hostin and her husband Dr. Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin thanks to a new lawsuit.

Emmanuel is an orthopedic surgeon based out of New York City with nearly 29 years of experience. He graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1996 and is the owner of Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, a practice the surgeon established in Manhattan in 2006.

Sunny Hostin defends husband, Dr. Hostin, amid lawsuit alleging insurance fraud. Claims of fraudulent medical services and kickbacks.

While Hostin stayed far from inauguration coverage yesterday, her co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin was plugged in while covering the event as a political analyst for CNN. Her takeaway? It’s time to stop using the phrase “normalizing Donald Trump,” because all of this is, well, normal now.

Sunny Hostin‘s personal life has recently become a topic of great interest. This is due to her husband, Emmanuel Hostin, being named in a federal lawsuit accusing him of insurance fraud. The View co-host herself has also been making headlines due to her comparison of the January 6 riots to the holocaust.

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin did not mince words when discussing President Donald Trump ‘s inauguration and his first day in office, which included a bevy of controversial executive order signings.