Frances Zayonts serves as claims, coverage, and monitoring counsel for a range of professional and management liability insurers. Her practice focuses on coverage advice and claims handling across key professional liability lines, including lawyers’ liability, insurance agent and broker liability, miscellaneous professional liability, and employment practices liability.
Areas of Focus
Professional Liability
Frances serves as claims, coverage, and monitoring counsel across multiple professional lines, providing coverage advice and claims handling on matters involving lawyers’ liability, insurance agents and brokers, miscellaneous professional liability, and employment practices liability. She evaluates exposure, advises on coverage positions, and coordinates with panel counsel to drive efficient resolutions.
Directors & Officers Liability
Frances supports D&O insurers with coverage analysis and claims handling involving management liability exposures, drawing on her professional lines experience to assess allegations, monitor defense, and align strategy with policy language and insurer objectives.
- Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 2022)
- Pace University (B.B.A., 2019)
- New York
- New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department